Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Improving the game

["Glotmorf" <dwhytock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28 Jan 2004 at 18:56, Joel Uckelman wrote:

> Thus spake "Baron von Skippy":
> >
> > -Perhaps I should explain why I propose this. It's not just the dead-end decl
> > aration of superiority it seems. Declaring that B Nomic is better than anythi
> > ng implies:  B Nomic is better than sex. B Nomic is better than peyote (which
> > , as I recall, was at least considered for inclusion in the motto). B Nomic i
> > s better than two other games of B Nomic, both of which are better than each 
> > other and it. B Nomic is better than Rules 10, 33, and 1702. B Nomic is bette
> > r than the adjective "better."
> 
> Wouldn't it also entail that B Nomic is better than itself? I think it's a 
> logical truth that for all x, x is not better than x.

Only if both instances of x occur simultaneously.  If, on the 
other hand, the act of looking at x pinpoints it at a 
particular state or moment in time, looking at x twice for the 
purposes of comparing it to itself may yield an inequality.

Consider the following pseudocode statement:

	if (rand() == rand()) then print "yes" else print "no";

How often would you seriously expect to see "yes"?

						Glotmorf

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