> Subj: Re: This isn't syntax, folks!
>
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>>]Play NOMIC!
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>>]For more information write to
No...@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>>]
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>>We'd appreciate if you could keep the unsolicited advertisements off
>>Alt.Syntax.Tactical. Remember, this is an academic, investigative forum, NOT
>>a television commercial for the net-masses. We neither sponsor or promote
>>the capitalist instinct.
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>>Fever Germ
>>CEO/GM AST
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> Uh huh, this is an academic investigative forum, like I'm G. B. Trudeau.
>
> NOMIC is a "game" described in some sort of academic context by Dr. Peter Suber,
> and played by readers of Hofstader everywhere. The game I was inviting
> everyone to consider participating in, admitedly clumsily, has been ongoing
> for over two years; I believe that it has the potential to become a template
> organizational structure for a truly decentralized future worldwide system
> of peaceful coexistence, and that as such, shrewd individuals such as the
> fine minds who choose to tune into "a.s.t" would benefit the game immensely,
> providing new ideas and fresh perspectives.
>
> One goal for Nomic in 1994, for the next semester really, glad
> to have you to tell this to as it becomes clear only in the communication, is
> to reduce the minimum amount of time and energy required to be a citizen of
> nomic from almost an hour a day to an occasional awareness and the possibility
> of registered individuals simply dropping in and voting on something which they
> have heard about and interests them.
>
> The goal, another one, is to enumerate what it is that makes up consensus
> reality
>
> Feel free to forward this to a.s.t, mr. germ
>
>
> david
>
dni...@cstp.umkc.edu>
>
>
Well, group, I couldn't resist forwarding it myself.
Am I verging on becoming an annoyance?
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