Meetup : A Game of Nomic
Discussion article for the meetup : A Game of Nomic
Hi everyone. I’ll be holding a Saturday meetup at my apartment to play Nomic, not this Saturday, but next Saturday (July 7th, nine days from now). For those not familiar with Nomic, it’s a game where playing the game is about changing the rules of the game. The last time we played with the NYC rationalist group was super-awesome, and I’m looking forward to doing it again.
Meetup will start at 3 PM, and will be followed by pizza or other forms of dinner (depending on interest).
NOTE: Due to conflict with other events, this has been moved to Saturday, July 21st.
I can’t make it, but I’ve been mulling over the idea of trying to get a bunch of LWers to experiment with the general forms of internet nomic play and group-group interactions. The idea that’s kicking around in my head is to get a big list of names of interested people and randomly assign them to groups of 2-4 who meet in IRC and run a very low structure initial nomic of the sort Keven has talked about in the past, except with chat logs for posterity.
These could evolve however they evolve… but the vague intent would be for one or more of them to run over long-ish periods of time (maybe on mailing lists or web pages or FB pages or whatever they use as a longer term medium), and then, in the weeks/months after the smaller nomics get settled (or collapse or have someone a benevolent dicatator or whatever) we could try to merge the survivors somehow into a larger thing that respects as many of the the cool ideas as possible.
It is worth noting that Nomics have, in the past, been played enjoyably over the net, and over an extended period by a social group with a mixture of net and live meetings: Elemental Oblivion
Hey, can someone PM me the address real fast? The meetup is in two hours and I didn’t realize it wasn’t posted somewhere… :|
I’m going to come next weekend.
Do you ever come to Canada?
Never heard of this but am severely intellectually deprived from working in a cubicle (ala as I type) so am interested in learning more
Alicorn and I are flying in to NYC on the 7th, I don’t remember whether we’ll be on the ground when this starts or not.
The date was changed to a conflict with some NY folks, but there will likely be people looking to hang out on the 7th if you’re in the area.