On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Ben Caplan wrote: > On Saturday 20 September 2008 08:51:14 pm Kerim Aydin wrote: >> making that broader adjustment was, for some reasons I don't quite >> recall, the subject of some interesting discussion which never came >> around to an agreed-upon fix. >> >> -Goethe. > > Proto-proto: Make power ordinal rather than cardinal, and organize the > ruleset by power. Occasionally we would have rules like "rules below > this one can be changed with AI >= 2". Early (powerful) rules would > include "defining terms is secured".
At one point I had a proto-proto that actually divided the ruleset into three ordinal branches (I think legislative, judicial, executive) such that *within* a branch power was ordinal, and a master constitutional rule said "all rules in the legislative branch have precedence over rules in other branches *for legislative matters*... likewise for the other branches. That would be really cool to implement. I think it was in response to Maud's call for a proposal to radically change the power structure, just never got around to finishing. -Goethe
