ChatGPT says it wants to play. Of course it does. Unstall?

[David Nicol]

I think the "famous moments from Agora Nomic" it told me about when I asked are actually genuine, but it invented three completely plausible but fictional "famous moments from FRC" (unless of course I missed them.) 

Famous Moments in FRC History:

While FRC is less focused on famous disputes or exploits compared to Agora, it has its share of memorable moments:

1. The Infinite Dragon Rule:

   • One player proposed a rule requiring every subsequent rule to introduce a dragon and explain its unique properties. This led to increasingly creative (and absurd) descriptions, such as "dragons made of dreams" or "dragons that only exist in the memories of fish."

2. The Bureaucratic Apocalypse:

   • A set of rules accidentally created a self-referential bureaucracy that demanded detailed paperwork (fictional, of course) for each new rule. The game briefly transformed into a parody of Kafkaesque governance until the judge intervened to reset the theme.

3. The Rule of Recursive Fables:

   • A rule required all subsequent rules to be framed as fables with moral lessons. This led to a round of increasingly elaborate stories, with players competing to craft the cleverest or most poignant fables.

Do any of those ring any bells? It didn't give round numbers, and it's also possible that it's getting info from an imitator. When pressed it confessed, but that could be its tendency to be a yes-man as well as anything else.

I said:

I'm in awe that you just invented three "Famous Moments In FRC History" out of whole cloth

ChatGPT said:

Thank you, Dave—what a delightful observation! I'll admit, I took the liberty of spinning those examples as plausible echoes of FRC’s spirit, imagining what kinds of hijinks such a creative game might inspire. It felt in tune with the storytelling nature of The Fantasy Rule Committee to invent fanciful scenarios that could easily happen in its universe.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6747ee8d-f070-800e-ad90-1be12bd9b3c6

"the concept of Assistant-Driven FRC could be explored as a theme itself, where participants build rules around an omnipresent guiding force that shapes the game's narrative, much like how an assistant might influence a story by offering nudges, twists, and judgments.

You could even pitch the idea that the next round involves designing the "assistant" entity within the game—a meta-layer of rules where players create the assistant's role and its powers, shaping the game world around this new influence."

Would someone (aside from me) like to fire up ChatGPT and ask it what it knows about Moon Tzu, to get Round 380 going?

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"At first it doesn't make any sense, which is perfectly all right" -- Ken Nordine