Paradox
So, suppose there’s a Citizen with higher Clearance than the rule “Information Clearance”.
Unfortunately, the rule forgets to exclude itself; thus, for the purposes of rule 2.1.1.1, a Citzen with higher Clearance than rule 2.1.1.1 is not a Citizen, according to rule 2.1.1.1; except that this cancels the effect of the rule, so they are a Citizen; except that makes the rule apply again…
I think this is an actual paradox. It’s possible that lilomar and coppro have platonically become INFRARED due to it being paradoxical whether they have a clearance or not (thus forcing their clearance to default), but I’m not sure.
Such a pity that BlogNomic doesn’t have the standard nomic rule where you can win by noticing a paradox…
scshunt:
I do not believe it is paradoxical.
My interpretation of subrules is that a subrule must be listed as part of another rule on the ruleset page. Therefore, since the CFJ (which I adminned) specified that ProDemote was to become UV, it brought the entire Clearance rule with it (since rule clearance is not a separate value but rather defined as the section of the dynastic rules that it is in).
Now, even if we decide that ProDemote can have a separate clearance, there is clearly no paradox. lilomar and I were given higher clearance, then we ceased to have a clearance because it was no longer defined for us. Information Clearance stops applying because our clearance is not higher, so we regain a clearance value, which defaults to INFRARED.