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

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 29, 2004, at 9:42 AM, Zarpint Jeremy Cook wrote:

> If the sentence is evaluated at all, and I don't see why it would be
> because it's just a text string, it should be evaluated in a single
> instant, not piecemeal like C. But it's not like the rules are not
> unresolvably contradictory as things are now, so why not?

I dunno... I think there's a pretty big difference between "silliness 
that benefits the game" and "silliness that's stupid". I see no way in 
which the game will profit from the inclusion of this contradiction; it 
doesn't seem particularly likely that it will affect anything, in fact, 
but it certainly can't do anything good, though I can see how it could 
be interpreted to do bad things. Thus, I would classify this as 
"silliness that's stupid".

Incidentally, "the laws of all nations are repealed" and "B Nomic is a 
sovereign nation" strike me as stupid silliness too - taken together 
they could be interpreted to erase the entirety of the game, or they 
could be interpreted to have no effect but to make us look kind of 
childish, and either way it's dumb.

--
Wonko
Award Wonko a Win.
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