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A comment on Gödel’s Loophole in the US constitution.

Re:Gödel’s Loophole in the US constitution by sootzoo on Sunday June 01, 2014 @09:13PM (#7831389)
Reminds me of Nomic[1], a thought experiment which appears in an appendix to Peter Suber's excellent book, "The Paradox of Self-Amendment" [2]. Choice quote from the introduction to Nomic:

   If law-making is a game, then it is a game in which changing the rules is a move.
[1] http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/10288408/Peter%20...

[2] http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/10243418

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Re:Gödel’s Loophole in the US constitution by lisper on Sunday June 01, 2014 @09:55PM (#7831499)
People actually play this game:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic#Online_play

http://agoranomic.org/

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Re:Gödel’s Loophole in the US constitution by dalke on Monday June 02, 2014 @12:09AM (#7831834)
Less generically, I've played the game, using the rules straight from Hofstader's book.
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