Subject: Simplex: OK so I overreacted.
From: Mueller <mueller4@sonic.net>
Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 04:42:42

I rejoin the game. (I already talked with Jeff about this F2F about an
hour ago.) My apologies to Jeff, he wasn't quite as atrocious as I first
thought, though I still think that his judgement would not have been
successful if he had followed the laws concerning the method of decision
making.

As a public action, I modify Muscle Man Murphy by replacing his current
descripion which reads:

"A thingie is anything that exists in Simplex (Citizens, Laws, law defined
anythings, and anything else that exists in the game).

A public action is any communication to all the citizens of Simplex which
can effect a thingie.

Private actions are communications to fewer than all the other citizens of
Simplex which can effect thingies.

Muscle Man Murphy can only be changed, destroyed, added to, or in any way
modified by public actions sent by the citizen of Simplex known as Tom
Mueller when Simplex started.

Muscle Man Murphy's actions cannot be countermanded, vetoed, or otherwise
prevented from taking effect by any citizen other than the citizen of
Simplex known as Tom Mueller when Simplex started.

Muscle Man Murphy forbids any citizen to take any action, public or
private, which would have retroactive effects.

Muscle Man Murphy forbids any citizen to take any private actions other
than those described in the laws.

Muscle Man Murphy can veto any public action not described in the laws
taken by any citizen for three days after it was publicly posted.

While Muscle Man Murphy can not forbid citizens from voting as described in
Law, he can change the minds of citizens as that is not regulated by said
Laws.

Thus Muscle Man Murphy may change The Mind of the People to whatever state
he wishes. Moreover, he forces citizens to play under the following
condition: If a citizen votes that citizen must vote the way The Mind of
the People indicates on any proposals that The Mind of the People refers to."

so that it reads:

"Muscle Man Murphy can only be changed, destroyed, added to, or in any way
modified by public actions sent by the citizen of Simplex known as Tom
Mueller when Simplex started.

Muscle Man Murphy's actions cannot be countermanded, vetoed, or otherwise
prevented from taking effect by any citizen other than the citizen of
Simplex known as Tom Mueller when Simplex started.

Muscle Man Murphy forbids any citizen to take any action, public or
private, which would have retroactive effects, except that he permits the
citizen known as Tom Mueller when Simplex started to retroactively create
one thingie named Definosaur.

Muscle Man Murphy forbids any citizen to take any private actions other
than those described in the laws.

Muscle Man Murphy can veto any public action not described in the laws
taken by any citizen for three days after it was publicly posted.

While Muscle Man Murphy can not forbid citizens from voting as described in
Law, he can change the minds of citizens as that is not regulated by said
Laws.

Thus Muscle Man Murphy may change The Mind of the People to whatever state
he wishes. Moreover, he forces citizens to play under the following
condition: If a citizen votes that citizen must vote the way The Mind of
the People indicates on any proposals that The Mind of the People refers to."

Then, as permited by Muscle Man Murphy I create a thingie retroactively to
the time Simplex began:

Name:

"Definosaur"

Description/Effects:

"A thingie is anything that exists in Simplex (Citizens, Laws, law defined
anythings, and anything else that exists in the game).

Thingie's may have a name, a description, and attributes.

Laws are named with their number, their text is their description, and they
do not have attributes, ever.

Citizens have a name which is what they are known by, a description whose
only function is to describe their appearance in such a way that this
description has no effect on any other thingies, and no attributes at the
time the game begins.

Unless the laws or thingie's themselves say otherwise, all other thingie's
are named in such a way that they can be unamibuously be identified, they
have descriptions which do only that which is explicitly permitted in the
rules, and no attributes.

Thingie's have no characteristics other than names, descriptions and
atttributes and all of these must be explicitly described to exist, they
may not be implicit and later 'discovered.'

A public action is any communication to all the citizens of Simplex which
can effect a thingie.

Private actions are communications to fewer than all the other citizens of
Simplex which can effect thingies.

Thingie actions occur when a public or private action indicates that a
thingie acted in a certain way. Citizens do not produce thingie actions,
only public or private actions.

There are no other forms of action which may effect thingies except as
provided by law. All other communication is either due to the laws being
directly implemented (in ways other than law 115) or serves to communicate
between the players of Simplex and has no effect on thingies.

Citizens are bound to recognize the existance and effects
of thingies and also private, public, and thingie actions."

Tom Mueller
mueller4@sonic.net

PS Hopefully by midnight on Sept 12 I will have a webpage up which will
track all thingies other than documents the Minister of Records maintains.
The document won't have game effects, but it may help people keep track of
all the stuff that's been created, and any descriptions people want to post
of thier citizen thingie descriptions.

PPS When dictator, I plan on destroying these thingies and moving most of
their text into rules (minus my veto ability and replacing it with rules
which prevent anything from happening not described in the rules). Does
this sound good? Anyone see any loopholes or things that might go wrong
when an autopilot holds the veto?