On 21/06/13 14:38, Sean Hunt wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Michael Norrish > <michael.norr...@nicta.com.au> wrote: >> This attitude was certainly one I held when we began the game. I later >> proposed >> a “document-centric” view of things, whereby the state was defined to be >> whatever the contents of the document said it was, but with some >> (unspecified) >> means of redress if it was believed that the documents had the “wrong” >> contents. >> I thought this was more pragmatic/realistic, and, as I recall, Kelly agreed >> with me. The idea didn’t stick.
>> Michael > It did. A number of our reports now use a mechanism to cause them to > be considered true if they go unchallenged for a week. This caused an > amusing situation recently when two self-ratifying reports effectively > disagreed as to whether or not I was a player. Very cool. I'm glad that's being used. I don't know how long it took me, but I certainly shifted well away from being a Platonist as the game progressed. Clearly I was young and naïve initially. Michael
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