On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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".
What do you mean by ordinal rather than cardinal? If you mean the mathematical concept of ordinal numbers, rational numbers would really do just as well, as every countable ordinal number is order isomorphic to a set of rational numbers, not to mention that we won't have infinitely many rules any time soon anyway. --Ivan Hope CXXVII
