> On Sep 13, 2017, at 2:19 AM, Aris Merchant > <thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Agora would stop existing. It would therfore have no state. Arguably > though, if we made a meta-descision to recreate it, it would start > existing again. The Paradox of Self-Amendment has some stuff on this.
Would it, though? The presence of rules may not be the defining feature of Agora’s existence. The rules tell us how to play, but - I would argue, not what Agora _is_. That definition is not formalizable without resorting to a higher meta-level than the rules, I suspect. That said, I have absolutely no intention of running any experiments on this, and in fact will object as strenuously as is possible to anything that would have the effect of removing all rules from Agora. -o
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