On 11/15/2011 02:43 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote:
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> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Pavitra wrote:
>> Proto fix: the text of a promise can create, but not cash, a promise.
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> When written, I envisioned finite chaining should be possible and
> could be fun (think: cascading actions, analogy to the employment
> round of blognomic here...)
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> Maybe just "A promise cannot cash itself, either directly, or
> through the action of other promises that it cashes; any attempts
> to cash a promise that result in such circularity completely
> fail" [this last clause to make clear that the whole chain fails
> rather than all of the circle being cashed except the last one].
{I sit up. I create a promise identical to this one, except with its
flavor text incremented by one and the phrases "sit up" and "lie down"
exchanged wherever they appear, and then cash that promise. The flavor
text of this promise is 1.}
