Alex Smith on Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:40:03 -0700 (MST)


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Re: [s-d] Game over?


On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 15:11 -0500, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Craig Daniel <teucer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> I check in on B Nomic every few months; did it die while I wasn't
> >> looking? That'd be sad, especially since last month was the decade
> >> anniversary of the founding
> >
> > It died a very long time ago, in a platonic sense. Then it got very
> > platonist, and then somebody figured out that this meant it had been
> > dead for many years, and it took its platonism seriously enough that
> > it was not able to recover from this news.
> 
> That's a pity. What killed it?

The first Emergency's time-stopping rule also stopped the passage of
time as seen by the Emergency, so it's impossible for the Emergency
resolution process to get anywhere, and also impossible to end it.

-- 
ais523

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