[Nomic] invocation of judgement

[Stuart Moore]

If the game has ended already then there is no longer a judgement 
procedure. Thus by invoking a judgement procedure you are suggesting you 
  believe the game to already exist. Or something.

On the other hand, it seems everyone is bored.

Adam Biltcliffe wrote:
> On November 19th at 23:21 I created a rule stating that if activity on 
> the Nomic email list ceased for a period of one continuous week, the 
> game would end. Stuart Moore swiftly set up a cron job which emailed the 
> list every three days to prevent this from happening; since the purpose 
> of the rule was to ensure that the game didn't drag on forever with 
> nothing happening, I felt no guilt at (ab)using my moderator privileges 
> to block it.
> 
> However, I've just noticed that the rule in question was never added to 
> the rules page on the website, and on December 22nd I issued a Notice of 
> Consensus for a rule stating that the 'perception of the state of the 
> game which is commonly held by all players' could not be affected by 
> events which happened more than two weeks previously.
> 
> There have been no posts since December 24th, so I would like to invoke 
> the Judgement of the Pope on resolving the following claim:
> 
> The game is over, and Adam Biltcliffe has won.
> 
> In justification, I point out that, if the Rule of Endings exists, I 
> have clearly won the game, since the criteria given in that rule have 
> been fulfilled. The only circumstance in which the Rule of Endings does 
> not exist would be if the rule 'Sanity Check' prevented it from 
> existing, which would be the case if no-one thought it did. While it 
> hasn't been on the website, I certainly remembered that it existed; I 
> infer that Stumo did as well, from the fact that he didn't cancel his 
> cron job, and when I've mentioned it in passing to other players they 
> seem to have also been aware of it. I'm not aware of anything saying 
> that the website has any authority in defining the rules, so I believe 
> that the website is incorrect, the Rule of Endings exists, the game has 
> ended and I am the winner.
> 
> EE
> 
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