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I have pain from laughing! Please stop that figent!

or are all we just figments of ryans imagination?

This maybe is the no1 forum thread of the year rofl

Colo has only just understood how to use crayons.

He is stuck on shutter island.

His bbq isn't real.

on which trip are you? meth?

By now it should be evident that this is a social science experiment.

1) You create a community of people that have rather much in common. Yeah, you will object, but face it - the commons are bigger than the differences else you wouldn't be stuck at this game.

2) You give that community some very limited and unclear rules by which to live (or play). In the end there is only ONE deciding instance which you may call God or President or Programmer...

3) That instance also places some persons to enforce and interpret the rules (disciples, prophets, moderators - choose).

4) That instance usually is not visible, its existence can hardly be proven. Occasional appearances are supportive and can be seen as steering of the experiments (like the possibility of naming new disciples).

5) The rules are changed arbitrarily at random times. The reason for any change is always improvement by whichever metric.

Now you can sit back and watch the evolution of that society.
How will it react to
- the absence of rule-enforcement?
- blatant cheating?
Which specific forms of communication and behavior will it develop?
Which impact will rule-changes have?

From all that I am certain you derive enough information about behavior of that group to fill a couple of books. It might fit religion as well as social science.


As a longtime lab-mouse in this, will I get informed about the publications?

joey is my favorite lobster