Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: The Daily Recognizer (Tuesday morning)

[bd <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 28 May 2002 7:47 pm, you wrote:
> Quoth Rob Speer,
>
> > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:07:48PM -0400, Wonko wrote:
> >> Either all of them can affect my dimensions, or we only have one player
> >> (*A* player is any entity who is capable of passing the Turing test --
> >> emphasis added)
> >
> > I'm not bothering to look at these rules in detail at the moment, but
> > there had better be something in the rules that stops the DimShip rule
> > from applying to itself. Otherwise the "current location" it displaces
> > from is the virtual location, because for all the rule knows the virtual
> > location _is_ the current location - which would bring everything
> > crashing down the first time someone set +1 Buoyancy of Entropy. You
> > don't need five ships for that.
>
> There's nothing to stop it from applying to itself.
>
> > And if it doesn't apply to itself (a more favorable situation), then the
> > five DimShips couldn't possibly work cumulatively.
>
> Unfortunately, I think it does...

Wow. I'll get to see rule 0 in action! Yipee!

I mean, Oh No!