[s-d] The current gamestates, as I understand them

[Justin Ahmann <quesmarktion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Gamma Nomic I": 
{
Law 1: This document is a list of laws, each of which is identified by a
number and has a body of text.

Law 3: Laws specify ways, which are the only ways, in which this document
may be modified.

Law 4: All references to words or text strings, in this document, refer to
the text between and excluding the next consecutive quotation marks, and are
case-insensitive.

Law 5: Emails received by spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx may contain proposed
modifications to this document. The following are the only text strings
which count as proposed modifications. All other text strings are ignored.
- "Remove law #", where "#" is an integer, is a proposal to remove the law
with this number from this document.
- "Insert law {STRING}", where "STRING" is a text string, are proposals to
append a new law to the bottom of this document, with the "STRING" as its
body and the next integer, greater than 0, not currently assigned to an
existing law, as its number.

Law 6: If more humans send emails containing the word "yes" than containing
the word "no" to spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx during the 72 hours following the
receipt of a proposed modification, then this document is modified as
proposed at the end of that 72 hour period. A maximum of one "yes" and one
"no" from each human apply to a given proposed modification.

Law 7: The following actions are either possible according to other laws, or
impossible but difficult for other humans to distinguish from possible
actions. They are to be severely frowned upon, and optionally ignored,
because they are considered universally boring:
- Sending emails to spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx from multiple accounts,
pretending to be more than one human.
- Enlisting non-humans or humans who show no particular interest in this
document to send emails to spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx on one's behalf.
}
Outstanding proposals:
Remove law 3. (submitted 8/1, 12:03 according to my e-mail system)
 
[Note that "Remove law 4" was never submitted to spoon-business.]
 
"Gamma Nomic II": 
{
Law 1: This document is a list of laws, each of which is identified by a
number and has a body of text.

Law 2: This document has a notional existence, independent of any of its
instances or copies. Modifying these therefore has no effect on this
document.

Law 3: Laws specify ways, which are the only ways, in which this document
may be modified.

Law 4: This entire document is case-insensitive.

Law 5: Emails received by spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx may contain proposed
additions to this document, using the formula "Insert law {STRING}", where
"STRING" is the body of a new law to be appended to the bottom of this
document, with the next integer, greater than 0 and not assigned to an
existing law, as its number.

Law 6: If more humans send emails containing the word "yes" than containing
the word "no" to spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx during the 72 hours following the
receipt of a proposed addition, then this document is modified as proposed
at the end of that 72 hour period. A maximum of one "yes" and one "no" from
each human apply to a given proposed modification.

Law 7: The following actions are either possible according to other laws, or
impossible but difficult for other humans to distinguish from possible
actions. They are to be severely frowned upon, and optionally ignored,
because they are considered universally boring:
- Sending emails to spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx from multiple accounts,
pretending to be more than one human.
- Enlisting non-humans or humans who show no particular interest in this
document to send emails to spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx on one's behalf.
 
Law 8: A multiword is a string with the first character either a whitespace 
character, "{", "(", "[" or quotation marks, and the last character either a 
whitespace character, ".", ",", "?", ";", ":", "!", closed curly brackets, ")", 
"]", or quotation marks. The intent of a multiword is the text between but 
excluding its first and last characters. A word is a multiword which has no 
whitespace characters in its intent.
 
Law 9: Any proposed modification which explicitly states an intention to alter 
only this document will be ignored. However, modifications which alter only this 
document may be proposed.
}
 
No outstanding proposals, since quotation marks aren't curly brackets.
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