Nomic as Life

4:16pm, 18th September 2003

Unplugged Nomic is an exquisitely documented game of Nomic that’s been going for about 3 years. It dives right into fundamental problems of law, self-reference and undecidability

Does Nomic have equivalent expressive power to traditional lawmaking? Could The Player of Games‘ game (where the winner becomes emperor) be derived from nomic? Or would it just end up like this?:

Right now my focus is on one of my stats that I call CER - my Chick Exposure Rate. See, as my CER increases, my probability of performing a critical hit (getting a date) dramatically increases. It’s just a matter of simple statisti-” Davis then broke off, his eyes following an attractive University of Florida co-ed on rollerblades.


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