nix wrote:
On 2/15/22 14:13, Nix Null via agora-official wrote:
On Thursday, February 10th, 2022 at 7:07 PM, Trigon via agora-official
<agora-offic...@agoranomic.org> wrote:
I wrote this over the course of several months then forgot I was going
to submit it until today. I would like to request that the Herald begin
the peer-review process set out in the rules for this occasion.
A link to the current draft follows:
https://infinitenomic.miraheze.org/wiki/Round_9/History
I have read this thesis draft, and overall think it's a wonderfully
crafted piece of nomic history. I think there's some real tact that goes
into turning events like this into a narrative that can be followed from
the outside. And the Conclusion honestly should be required reading for
anyone designing a nomic or subgame.
I will say, the vast majority of this doesn't relate to Agora. The
conclusion itself is a great addition to thoughts about Nomic design,
and our degrees are degrees of Nomic. And obviously that conclusion
benefits greatly from some of the discussion. But a lot of it is
Infinite specific. I think it would be my preference to have an abridged
version that focuses on the bits relevant to the conclusions, but I'm
not going to oppose this thesis based on only that. I think this could
be given a degree as-is. It's fantastic work.
Noting my perpetual dissatisfaction with the mechanics of the degree
system, I think this work would be worthy of a Doctorate in quality but
would rather give a Masters to the author since it's eir first one.
As I noted on Discord the other day, I would like to see a bit more
written about why these issues arose so prominently in Round 9 and
not so much in earlier rounds. (As I understand it, it was mainly due
to a greater portion of the player base leaning toward strict textualism
over author's original intent, compounded with the lack of an early win
condition leading to several fronts of heavy stockpiling because there
wasn't yet a clear incentive to curb them.)
