Re: spoon-discuss: nomic/drh

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Dan Waldron:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Benjamin Bradley wrote:
> 
> > I picked up my copy of metamagical themas again and was wondering how many
> > of us were turned on to Nomic by Hofstadter? If there are a sufficient
> > number of interested people, maybe we could incorporate some of his other
> > ideas - like analogy-making,etc. ?
> 
> We could have an analogy-making subgame.  I first encountered nomic
> through Metamagical Themas.  It was several years after I first read the
> book version that I discovered internet pbem nomic.  Now I'm hooked.
> 
> Poulenc

Hmm. I found out about nomic from Josh, who I believe found out about it only a few days prior when poking around on the web.

Speaking of MT, isn't mediocrity one of the games in it? I've always thought it sounded like an interesting way of determining a winner, giving rise to strategies of intentionally trying to lose certain subgames in order to finish in the middle in the overall game.

Anyway, I've a subgame protocol in mind that would make subgames easy to implement, something similar to the GWIBs for anyone who played in Berserker, though less complicated and loophole-rich.

-- 
J.