Re: [s-d] [s-b] Panic!

["Geoffrey Spear" <geoffspear@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 10, 2007 12:33 PM, Jamie Dallaire <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2007 12:16 PM, Ed Murphy <emurphy42@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Ugh.  Rule 0 doesn't explicitly require the use of any particular
> > wording.  In the interest of avoiding unnecessary panic, can we
> > agree to interpret the various synonyms as whichever of the following
> > they were clearly meant to equate to, at least for past actions?
> >
> >   1) "I hit my Panic Button"
> >   2) "I stop my Panic Button"
> >   3) "If my Panic Button is Off, then I hit my Panic Button,
> >       otherwise I stop my Panic Button"
>
>
> Yes, I think we can. By Wonko's logic, and by the exact wording of Rule
> 1-10, most of the game actions acknowledged as having taken place in the
> game of B Nomic never took place.
>
> : Game Actions
>
> A Game Action is defined as any activity specified by the rules to be a Game
> Action. Other Outsiders may also take Game Actions if explicitly permitted
> by the rules. To perform a Game Action, an Outsider must post a message to a
> Public Forum specifying that he is taking that action.
>
> Players often write that they are performing (not taking) a certain game
> action, or say "As a Game Action, I xyz". I don't see any problem with that
> and neither has anyone else so far, it seems.
>
> Wonko's literalist interpretation would force everyone to essentially write
> like robots, and I think the rules of the game were intended to make it
> playable for sentient beings.

Bah.  There was an era when it was vitally important to write like
robots since there were robots reading the mailing list and taking
appropriate action in response to the messages.

In any event, the history of the game before the passage of Proposal
130 is definitely intact, since it ratified all of the Public Displays
as they existed before it was submitted.
-- 
Geoffrey Spear
http://www.geoffreyspear.com/
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