On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Most of them have platonic rulesets that can be set up such that the >> rules change immediately upon the protective decree being issued. I'd >> argue that a nomic with a completely pragmatic ruleset dependent on an >> officer publishing the demanded changes probably can't be a >> Protectorate. > > So I can conceptualize a platonic virtual state-model of my machine as a > nomic but the actual machine is just an (updated-after-the-fact) recording > device for convenience. Gotcha. Then I wonder if *any* pragmatic machine > (e.g. Normish) allows sufficiently "arbitrary" changes to qualify as a > nomic under R2200? -G.
I don't see any need for that. To my eyes, the machine itself is the nomic. Whether it can become a protectorate in that state is largely irrelevant. And I disagree with Wooble; a completely pragmatic ruleset can still be a protectorate through a pragmatic mechanism that allows the protective decree to directly change the ruleset (e.g., a web form). -root
