Re: [spoon-discuss] so do we have a game or not?

["Glotmorf" <dwhytock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 Jan 2004 at 4:14, SkArcher wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:20:47 -0500, Glotmorf <dwhytock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Randomly deleting rules is easy.  I still want to see an
> > effective mechanism for randomly creating them.
> 
> It's called a player

I'm serious.  Imagine the following example:

A nomic game in which every noun and every verb used in rules 
must be defined in a game dictionary.  Given this, every once 
in a while a random rule would be created in the form of

<random noun>s <random: can|cannot> <random verb> <random 
noun>s.

This would produce dynamic (and occasionally impossible) rules 
such as "Verbs can repeal players" or "Players can create 
ballots" or something similar.  I could see players scrambling 
to take actions and or make proposals that take advantage of 
these surprise permissions and prohibitions.

It would be nice to come up with something more complex than 
this too, so that we could theoretically have bot-players, but 
that's just a tad out of my league...

						Glotmorf

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