Craig Daniel on Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:44:15 -0700 (MST)


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Re: [s-d] Game over?


On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Alex Smith <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 15:11 -0500, Daniel Lepage wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Craig Daniel <teucer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> I check in on B Nomic every few months; did it die while I wasn't
>> >> looking? That'd be sad, especially since last month was the decade
>> >> anniversary of the founding
>> >
>> > It died a very long time ago, in a platonic sense. Then it got very
>> > platonist, and then somebody figured out that this meant it had been
>> > dead for many years, and it took its platonism seriously enough that
>> > it was not able to recover from this news.
>>
>> That's a pity. What killed it?
>
> The first Emergency's time-stopping rule also stopped the passage of
> time as seen by the Emergency, so it's impossible for the Emergency
> resolution process to get anywhere, and also impossible to end it.

Alternately, an excess of Platonism.
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