Meetup : Waterloo Meetup: Nomic

2 Post author: Paamayim 29 November 2011 05:10PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Waterloo Meetup: Nomic

WHEN: 05 December 2011 09:00:00PM (-0500)

WHERE: 2-4 King Street North Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

The second meeting of our newly founded LW Waterloo chapter. Suggested activity is a game of nomic, with a discussion topic to be decided.

Join our mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/lesswrongwaterloo) for more announcements and a better venue for discussion.

Hope to see everyone there! Slight edit: This week's meetup is at Symposium (http://www.symposiumcafe.com/waterloorestaurants.html).

EDIT: Tonight's meetup is at 9pm, not 8pm. Sorry!

Discussion article for the meetup : Waterloo Meetup: Nomic

Comments (4)

Comment author: Kevin 03 December 2011 05:07:40AM 2 points [-]

Awesome. Consider playing the no initial ruleset game of nomic, rather than the overly convoluted rules from the initial proposal. Nomic is much more meta when you have to come up with a way to allow for making rules.

Comment author: Paamayim 03 December 2011 10:24:14PM 1 point [-]

Interesting. Could you elaborate on this a little more?

Comment author: Kevin 04 December 2011 01:39:45PM 1 point [-]

Well, if you have 6 people in a circle and want to play nomic but don't have any rules, what would you do?

You'd have to start by coming up with the mechanism by which rules are put into place. You'd have to define a rule, voting, consensus, recording, etc. It's very possible.

The one time I successfully did this was at Burning Man two years ago, and I think it took around an hour before the first rule was written on pad of legal paper. 'Twas a great game.

Comment author: Paamayim 05 December 2011 09:54:33PM 1 point [-]

I'm bad at scheduling things and forgot to make a reservation. Tonight we'll be meeting at 9pm instead of 8. I really apologize for any inconveniences this might cause.

tl;dr: The time is changed to 9pm.