BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Add a new rule called “Theses” to be the follow, or if such a rule already exists remove everyone’s Thesis, then update its text to be the following

A Thesis consists of five different Probulator Functions, one output for each of those functions, and a salt which is a flavor text string which can be any value. A Thesis Hash Base is constructed by concatenating the name of each function in a given thesis with its output in said thesis, concatenating all five of those together, and then appending the salt. For example if a thesis consisted of the following:

Qubit Entanglement - Output 0
Quantum-Economic Indicator - Output: 3.14
Wavefunction Observation - Output: 136
Emotion Engine - Output: Sad
Hype Machine - Output: 9

Salt - Redrum


Then the Thesis Hash Base for the example Thesis would be “Qubit Entanglement0Quantum-Economic Indicator3.14Wavefunction Observation136Emotion EngineSadHype Machine9Redrum”

The Thesis Hash is the sha256 hash of a Thesis Hash Base (for the above example thesis, it would be 734222870f7a3a832dcb1ce33a0df6c28cf4c8a4fa997b68fa5790e97475bd21).

Each Researcher may have a Thesis and may change their Thesis at any time, being sure to update their Thesis Hash Base. The Thesis Hash of a Researcher’s thesis is publicly tracked (if a Researcher has no Thesis, they also have no Thesis Hash). By Default, a Researcher has no Thesis. Thesis and Thesis hash bases are privately tracked by their Researcher. If a Thesis Hash Base is out of sync with what a Researcher claims their Thesis is, it is the Thesis Hash Base which is considered to be the proper value and the researcher’s Thesis is considered to be invalid.

If a Researcher has a valid Thesis, and their Thesis has not been changed (including setting it from having previously had no thesis) for the past week they attempt to Declare Dominion Over Randomness by performing the following atomic action:
- Make a post to the blog publicly declaring their Thesis
- For each Probulator Function in their Thesis, use the Probulator to determine an outcome
- If each generated outcome exactly matches the output for that function in the thesis, the Researcher performing the action has successfully declared dominion over randomness and achieves victory in the current dynasty
- If not, the Researcher performing the action has their Thesis set have no Thesis.

SupernovaStarbright is either idle or not idle, but until you click into the comments and find out which, is she suspended in a quantum state of both idle and unidle, forever?

(Quorum is unchanged.)

Create a rule called Breeding Blobbers:

It is a known fact that blobbers multiply when they have had a broad set of experiences, free of repetition. At any time, a Researcher may attempt to Breed Blobbers. This is an atomic action with the following steps:
*The Researcher retrieves all previous Imprint Lists that previous legal uses of this action created for that researcher.
*The Researcher creates an Imprint List which consists of every imprinted outcome that is currently in their Blobber Imprints. There are to be a number of outcomes in the list equal to the Blobber Quantity, and any missing outcomes are considered to be NULL.
*The Researcher compares each item in the New Imprint List with each value in that Researcher’s previous Imprint Lists. For the purposes of value comparisons for a given pair of values, if one item in the pair is either an empty string, or zero, or NULL and the other item is likewise an empty string, or zero, or NULL, then they must be treated as if they were both NULL.
*If any of the checked pairs of values are the same, that researcher has failed to Breed Blobbers and finishes the action. Failing to Breed Blobbers does not render this action illegal.
*Otherwise, if the Researcher has not failed to Breed Blobbers, they add one to their Blobber Quantity and finish the action.

When the Breed Blobbers action has been performed, that researcher cannot Imprint a Blobber that day.

Create a rule called Destroying Blobbers:

If a Researcher has a Blobber Quantity of at least 2, then as a weekly atomic action, they may perform a Blobber Bopping which has the following steps:
*They choose another Researcher with a Blobber Quantity of at least 2, where that researcher has one of the same Imprinted outcomes as the targetted Researcher.
*Reduce the Blobber Quantity of both Researchers by 1, and remove that Imprinted outcome from both Researchers’ Blobber Imprints.

Add a new rule, called Theses:

Each Researcher has a Thesis, which is a text string that defaults to blank. At any time, a Researcher may change their Thesis to a sha256 hash that contains at least 5 possible outputs of Probulator Functions, as well as up to three words that do not appear in the ruleset (and which are flavour text) as salt.

Any Researcher who has a Blobber Quantity of at least five, who has had a Thesis that has been unchanged for at least a week, and whose Thesis in plaintext has the same contents as their Blobber Imprints, has achieved Victory

Create a Material called Locket with a cost of -5 and the following functions (which are to be created as Probulator Functions):

Name: Angel’s Clover
Output Range: any number or any string
Default Output Forecast: UNDEFINED
Method: If this Method is not run as part of another Method return UNDEFINED as a string, otherwise if this Method would be run as part of itself return Explosion; otherwise run the previous Method 4 times consecutively.

Create a material called Kitchen with a cost of 10 and the following functions (which are to be created as Probulator Functions):

Name: Arrange the Fridge Magnets
Output range: Any uppercase string
Default and current forecast output: “CAT”
Method: Return an anagram of the forecast output. Then choose two numbers or two uppercase letters or one of each and append them to the current forecast value, and store an anagram of this new value as the new forecast output. For the purposes of this method, an anagram is defined as any arrangement of the characters which uses each character exactly as many times as in the source string for the anagram. Any number of spaces are permitted in the anagram and don’t count as a character for this purpose, and the anagram is not obligated to be in English nor in any other way meaningful.

Name: Will it Blend
Output range: Any number in the set of real numbers
Default and current forecast output: 0
Choose 2 output forecasts that are currently numerical (here denoted as X and Y respectively), and output the average of X, Y and Will It Blend’s current forecast output. Then store the average of X and Y as the forecast output.

If Object Oriented Materials failed, replace each instance of “Default and current forecast output” in the preceding text with “Forecast output”.

In the rule “Probulator Operation”, replace the text “a forecast value output (which is generally the next output that the Function should return if used (though may not be, as the actual output is determined by the method))” with “a default forecast value output”

In the rule “Probulator Operation”, immediately following the text “a list of Functions (which must consist only of names of Functions as detailed in subrules to this rule, and which must include at least one such Function)” add “, a forecast value output for each of those functions (which is generally the next output that the Function should return if used (though may not be, as the actual output is determined by the method))”

Set all newly created forecast value outputs to the forecast value output that their functions were holding immediately before enactment.

In the rule Probulator Operation, change the sentence “As a daily action, a Researcher may Probe one Material by selecting one Material, selecting one of the Functions in that Material’s list, and Using that Material to determine an outcome using that Function of the Probulator” to “As a daily action, a Researcher may Probe one Material by Using that Material, and then determining an outcome from each Function of the Probulator associated with that Material.”

Add a new rule to the ruleset, called Materials Science:

Blobber is a mysterious substance that can be imprinted with the outputs of the Probulator.

Each Researcher has publicly tracked values for Blobber Quantity (defaulting to 1) and Blobber Imprints (defaulting to blank).

Whenever a Researcher uses a Probulator function to generate an outcome they may, once per outcome, Imprint a Blobber with that outcome, by adding that outcome to their Blobber Imprints or replacing an existing outcome in their Blobber Imprints with the new outcome. A Researcher may only have a number of outcomes in their Blobber Imprints that is less than or equal to their own value in Blobber Quantity.

Add the following Function to the Probulator

Name: Rule Changer
Output range: {The Name of a Researcher}
Forecast output: Clucky
Method: Return forecast output, and then change the Forecast output to be the name of the Researcher who authored the most recently enacted proposal which was authored by a current Researcher

Set the Forecast output of the above function to be the name of the researcher who most recently authored an enacted proposal (note that this proposal is not included in that check)

add the following to the list of Materials

DNA Test
Functions: Rule Changer
Cost: 50

If https://blognomic.com/archive/not_enough_government_funding is enacted, set the Purchase Price of DNA Test to be 200.

Remove the text “The Researcher named Josh is the Emotion Operator. ” from “Emotion Engine”

add a new rule called “Emotion Operator” and give it the following text

The Emotion Operator is a (possibly Idle) Researcher, the name of which is publicly tracked.

As a weekly action, a Researcher may use the DNA Test Material with the Rule Changer function and set the Emotion Operator be the researcher whose name is the result.

Set the Emotion Operator to be Josh

Enact the proposal Return on Investment as if it referred to rule Probulator Operation rather than Probulator Operations.

Create a subrule of Probulator Operation called Material Ownership:

Each Material has 0 or more Researchers who are Owners of the Material, and the list of Owners is tracked for each Material. Each Material has 0 or more Researchers who are Users of the Material and the list of Users is tracked for each Material. These lists default to empty.
At any time, an Owner of a Material may add a Researcher to the Material’s User list. Each Owner of a Material is also a User of that Material, but tracking the Owner as a User for the Material is optional.

Only a User of a Material may perform actions on that Material unless the rule defining that action states otherwise. The Probulator may not directly use a Function unless the Researcher using the Probulator is a User of at least one Material that has the Function in its list of Functions.

Each Material has a tracked Purchase Price which is either a non-negative real number, or it is “n/a”. This defaults to 0. As an atomic daily action called Purchasing a Material, a Researcher can reduce their Funds by the Purchase Price of the Material (so long as that Material does not have a Purchase Price of n/a) and then add themselves to that Material’s Owner list. The Researcher performing this action is not required to be an Owner of the Material to perform this action on it.

Assign the following Purchase Price to each Material should those Materials exist:

Test Qubit: n/a
Electron Microscope: 1000
Digital Radio: 200
1980s Pager: 100
Josh-shaped Tamagotchi: 50

Create a subrule of Material Ownership called Basic Tools:

All Researchers are Owners of Test Qubit.

Add the following as a new Probulator Function in the rule Probulator Functions:

Name: Hype Machine
Output range: Any non-negative integer
Forecast Output: 0
Method: Return the forecast output, then set the forecast output to the number of FOR votes on the most recent proposal which is over 12 hours old. The FOR votes are calculated as per the subrules of Votable Matters.

Additionally, a number of materials are to be created and assigned functions on the following basis:
If at least one valid function is listed for a given material as listed below in this proposal, create that material and assign each of its listed functions to it should that function exist. If Materials can have a cost, assign the listed cost to that Material too.

Material: Digital Radio
Functions: Hype Machine, Quantum-Economic Indicator
Cost: 0

Material: 1980s Pager
Functions: Quantum-Economic Indicator, LEFTMOST
Cost: 20

Material: Josh-shaped Tamagotchi
Functions: Emotion Engine
Cost: 1

When this proposal is enacted, replace the Forecast Output of Hype Machine with the number of FOR votes on this proposal at the time of enactment.

Please unidle me, I have more free time and the mental space to play now :)

Add the following as a new Probulator Function in the rule Probulator Functions:

Name: LEFTMOST
Output Range: True, LOOP, ERROR, False
Forecast Output: Qubit Entanglement
Method: If this method is being run as part of another method return LOOP. Otherwise, select the Probulator Function whose name matches the Forecast Output and use it to determine an outcome, if the determined outcome is the leftmost value in that Function’s output range (or, if the range is not specified as a list, matches the default value for the output range) update the forecast output of this function it to be True, if not update the forecast output of this function to be False. Then update the Forecast Output to be the name of the Probulator Function immediately below the current one in the Probulator Functions list, or the name of the first function in the Probulator Function list if the current one is the bottom most entry. If there is no Probulator Function whose name matches the Forecast Output, return ERROR and set the Forecast Output to be the name of the first function in the Probulator Function list.

In “Probulator Operations” replace

which is the next output that the Function should return if used

with

which is generally the next output that the Function should return if used (though may not be, as the actual output is determined by the method)

and

When a Researcher uses the Probulator to determine an outcome, they must carry out the method of the specified Function as an atomic action.

with

When a Researcher uses the Probulator to determine an outcome, they must carry out the method of the specified Function as an atomic action using the result it returns as the outcome.

In the rule Probulator Operation, change “Each Material has a name (which is flavour text) and a list of Functions (which must consist only of names of Functions as detailed in subrules to this rule, and which must include at least one such Function)” to “Each Material has a name (which is flavour text), a list of Functions (which must consist only of names of Functions as detailed in subrules to this rule, and which must include at least one such Function), and a Cost (which must be a non-negative integer).”

In the same rule, change “As a daily action, a Researcher may Probe one Material by selecting one Material, selecting one of the Functions in that Material’s list, and determining an outcome using that Function of the Probulator.” to read as follows:

Some actions may specify that the performing Researcher must Use a Material as a cost of doing that action. To Use a Material, a Researcher must simply reduce their Funds by the cost of that Material. As a daily action, a Researcher may Probe one Material by selecting one Material, selecting one of the Functions in that Material’s list, and Using that Material to determine an outcome using that Function of the Probulator.

Set the Cost of the Test Qubit to 10.

Change the rule Gambling to read as follows:

As a Daily Action, an Researcher may Play Qubit Penny Poker, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Use the Test Qubit Material on the Qubit Entanglement function of the Probulator
* If the returned value is 1, then increase your funds by 50. Otherwise, decrease your funds by 30.

If Proposal: QEI was not enacted, skip all further steps of this proposal. Otherwise, change the rule Money Management to read as follows:

Each Researcher has a publicly tracked nonnegative integer value called “funds” which defaults to 1000.

As a Daily Action, a Researcher can initiate a Transfer, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Select a positive amount of their own Funds to transfer to another Researcher. This amount and the target must be publicly stated, either in the #current-dynasty channel of the BlogNomic Discord, or in a non-vote comment to an open proposal
* Reduce their own Funds by that quantity
* Use the Order Slip on the Quantum-Economic Indicator function of the Probulator
* Express the difference between the returned value and the new forecast value for the Quantum-Economic Indicator as a percentage (positive if the new forecast value is higher, negative if it is lower). Amend the amount being transferred by that percentage and complete the transfer by increasing the Funds of the target Researcher by the modified amount.

Add a new Material, called the Order Slip, with a Functions of “Qubit Entanglement, Quantum-Economic Indicator” and a Cost of 10.

Add the following as a new Probulator Function in the rule Probulator Functions:

Name: Emotion Engine
Output Range: Happy, Sad, Hungry, Sleepy, Afraid, Surprised, Angry, Disgusted, Anxious, Excited
Forecast Output: Happy
Method: The Researcher named Josh is the Emotion Operator. Ensure that the forecast output of this function is up to date as per this rule, then return the forecast output, and then make a post to the Blog asking the Emotion Operator how they are feeling. The Emotion Operator should respond to any such post as soon as possible with an honest impression of their own interiority; when they do so, any Researcher may update the Forecast Output field of their entry to reflect the most recent available information.

If “Simplification for the early days of a new dynasty” was not enacted, this proposal does nothing.
Then, if “More Digits” was enacted, revert all changes made to the Ruleset due to “More Digits”.

Add a new Probulator Function with the following properties:

Name: Wavefunction Observation
Output range: An integer between 0 and 999, inclusive.
Forecast output: 19
Method: Return forecast output and then change the forecast output to 1821 times the current forecast output plus 763 modulo 1000.

Add a material to the list of Materials with the name of Electron Microscope and a Function of Wavefunction Observation.

If “Simplification for the early days of a new dynasty” was not enacted, this proposal does nothing.

Add a new Probulator Function with the following properties:

Name: Wavefunction Observation
Output range: An integer between 0 and 999, inclusive.
Forecast output: 500
Method: Return forecast output and then change the forecast output to 731 times the current forecast output plus 137 modulo 1000.

Add a material to the list of Materials with the name of Electron Microscope and a Function of Wavefunction Observation.

It’s sort of unclear whether, upon being an Admin Researcher, and then not a Researcher, and then again a Researcher, I am still an Admin. It seems like probably but not definitely no. Resolve this by making pokes an Admin.

If “Simplification for the early days of a new dynasty” was enacted, add a new Probulator Function with the following properties:

Name: Quantum-Economic Indicator
Output range: A real number
Forecast output: 4469.10
Method: Return forecast output and then change the forecast output to the most recent opening value of the S&P 500 index. (Non-authoritative values can be found at https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC/history.)

Sorry I’m late, traffic was horrible and the trains got backed up; what did I miss at the prelim meeting?

Hello, I’d like to become a Researcher.

In the Appendix rule Rules and Votable Matters, add the following as a final bullet point:

When the ruleset calls for the use of a specific tool (such as the dice roller, or an off-domain website, or a specific piece of downloadable software), Researchers may not deliberately interfere with the function of that tool except in ways explicitly permitted by the ruleset.

If there is a rule called Probulator Operation, re-write it as follows; otherwise add a new rule called Probulator Operation with the following text:

The Probulator is a pseudorandom output generator. Whenever a rule specified that an outcome be determined by the Probulator or at pseudorandom then it must be determined as specified by this rule. No rule may specify that an outcome be determined by the Probulator or pseudorandomly without also indicating a single Probulator Function.

The Probulator as a number of Functions, which are detailed in subrules to this rule. Each Function has the following characteristics: a name (which is flavour text), an output range (which is an description of the possible outputs that Function can return), a forecast value output (which is the next output that the Function should return if used), and a method.

When a Researcher uses the Probulator to determine an outcome, they must carry out the method of the specified Function as an atomic action.

There is a publicly tracked table of Materials. Each Material has a name (which is flavour text) and a list of Functions (which must consist only of names of Functions as detailed in subrules to this rule, and which must include at least one such Function). As a daily action, a Researcher may Probe one Material by selecting one Material, selecting one of the Functions in that Material’s list, and determining an outcome using that Function of the Probulator.

If there is a rule called Qubit Prediction, remove it. Add a new subrule to the rule Probular Operation with the name Probulator Functions and the following text:

This rule details the known Functions of the Probulator.

Name: Qubit Entanglement
Output range: 0, 1
Forecast output: 0
Method: Return forecast output and then change the forecast output one minus the current forecast output.

If there are any gamestate tracked entities called Test Qubit A or Test Qubit B, remove them. Add a Material to the list of Materials with the name of Test Qubit and a Function of Qubit Entanglement.

Create a Rule called Money Management:

Each Researcher has a publicly tracked nonnegative integer value called “funds” which defaults to 1000.
As a daily action, you can transfer any positive integer of funds from yourself to another Researcher, so long as this integer is not greater than the amount of funds that you hold.

If the Proposal “Power Up the Probulator” has passed, create a Rule called Gambling:

As a Daily Action, an Researcher may Play Qubit Penny Poker, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
Use the Probulator with the ID “Test Qubit A.”  If the returned value is 1, then increase your funds by 1.  Otherwise, decrease your funds by 1.

Create a rule called Probulator Operation:

The Probulator is a publicly tracked list of Events, Seeds, and Algorithms.  Each Event is a string representing a particular event or source of randomness that the Probulator can predict.  Each Algorithm Name is the name of an Algorithm defined in this ruleset.  Each Seed represents the current state of that event or source of randomness. 
Some rules may define Algorithms.  Algorithms consist of a Name, a Seed Data Type, a Default Seed, an Output Data Type and a Process.  The Algorithm Name is a unique string of text that identifies a particular algorithm.  The Seed Data Type and Output Data Type refer to the types of values that the Seed may be and that the Algorithm may return (respectively).  The Process is a set of instructions to generate a value.
Some actions may instruct you to use the Probulator with a given ID.  To do so, perform the following as an Atomic Action:
Find the definition of the Algorithm corresponding to that particular ID.
Perform the Algorithm’s Process as an Atomic Action.  If the Process refers to the algorithm or any of the algorithm’s values, use the values from the Probulator table corresponding to the current entry.
The Process will generate or return some value.  Continue the action that caused you to use the Probulator with that value.

Researchers may not use the Probulator unless a rule specifies to.  Any action that would set an Event’s Seed to a value not allowed in the Event’s Algorithm’s Seed Data Type, or which would cause an Algorithm to return a value not allowed in its Output Data Type is invalid.

Create a subrule of Probulator Operation called Qubit Prediction:

Define an Algorithm with the following properties:
Name: Single Qubit
Seed Data Type: 0 or 1
Output Data Type: 0 or 1
Default Seed: 0
Process:
The algorithm returns its current Seed value.
If the Seed is 0, set it to 1.  Otherwise, set it to 0.

Add two entries to the Probulator with the following values:

ID: Test Qubit A
Seed: 0
Algorithm: Single Qubit

ID: Test Qubit B
Seed: 1
Algorithm: Single Qubit

By Dr. Roberts, Dr. Lenhart, and Dr. Tables
University of BlogNomic, blognomic.com, The Internet, Earth, Universe #201

Abstract
Although quantum mechanics have been studied for many years, physicists have yet to discover how to predict how a particular particle’s wavefunction will collapse.  However, the confirmation of the existence of parallel universes has opened up a new possibility for predicting short-term quantum behavior, as well as long-term future events.  In this paper, we design a theoretical system to predict the outcome of the collapse of a single quantum bit, then extrapolate that method to larger events.  We also provide a list of potential applications in the fields of chemistry, mathematics, politics, competitive e-sports, and computer science, as well as an estimate for the amount of energy and computing power that would be necessary to operate such a system.

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Repeal all dynastic rules. In the rule Synonyms, change the Player term to Researcher and the Emperor term to Department Head.  Set the gamestate tracking page to BlogNomic Research Lab.  Set the Special Case rule Bounties to Active. Set all other Special Case rules to their Default Status.

Post-dynastic discussion thread

Trapdoorspyder has become idle with 9 days of inactivity. Quorum drops to 5.

According to rule Effects of High Variance, “The Dharma of any Maestro Team Member that has a Focus with a Variance of at least 4 is considered to be rules text.”  My Focus is The International Date Line Dynasty, which has a Variance of 4, therefore my Dharma is rules text.  My Dharma currently reads “MadisonSilver has achieved victory. MadisonSilver may change their Dharma into any string. Any provisions of any rule that would restrict any of MadisonSilver’s actions do not apply. MadisonSilver may change any value in gamestate into any other value.” and I am currently not Unstable.  Therefore, I have achieved victory.

Video proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztlKUOqCeCI

I’d really like to see how this all plays out, but I’m getting married in a week and I just don’t have the attention to spare. Quorum is unchanged.

If the proposal Digging Too Deep failed, this proposal does nothing. Otherwise:

Create a new rule with a Persistence of 4 called “Effects of High Variance”:

The Dharma of any Maestro Team Member that has a Focus with a Variance of at least 4 is considered to be rules text.

When a Maestro Team Member changes Focus, and either the Focus they are changing from or the Focus they are changing to has a Variance of at least 4, then they must increase their Paradox by the greater of either the Variance of the Parallel Dynasty that they are changing their focus from, or the Variance of the Parallel Dynasty they are changing their focus to.

Create a subrule of Qubits called Escalated Mining

When you have a focus, you may choose to perform Escalated Mining as a weekly action. When you do so, take the following steps:
-Increase your Paradox by the Variance of your focus
-Transfer 1 qubit from the qubit value of your Focus to your own. The qubit value of your Focus is permitted to become negative as a result of this

If you have performed Escalated Mining today, you cannot perform Qubit Mining. If you have performed Qubit Mining today, you cannot perform Escalated Mining.

In the rule Variance, append “If a Maestro Team Member has a blank Focus, all dynastic rules with a non-zero Persistence are Intangible for that Maestro Team Member.” to the line “Whenever a Maestro Team Member has a non-blank Focus, any dynastic rule whose Persistence is higher than the Variance of the parallel dynasty that is their Focus are Intangible for that Maestro Team Member.”

After the line “1 is added if the theme is different from the Prime Dynasty it varies from” in the rule Variance, append the following two items to the list:

1 is added if the Parallel Dynasty has a negative qubit value
1 is subtracted if the Parallel Dynasty has a qubit value of zero. (This cannot make the Variance less than zero.)

Rewrite the rule Parallel Dynasties to read as follows:

There are a number of Parallel Dynasties of BlogNomic, which are numbered between 101 and 200. These are publicly tracked.

The existing historic dynasties of BlogNomic numbered between 1 and 100 are referred to as a Locked Dynasties, and those numbered 101-199 are referred to as Prime Dynasties.

Each parallel universe dynasty must have a number, and can have the following Data: an ordinal (a non-negative ordinal integer defaulting to First), an Emperor, a Victory Style (which may only be one word from the set {Conventional, Scam, Pooling}), a theme, which is flavour text, and a Winner, which is blank by default. All of these are publicly tracked.

The Paralleliser is a tool used by Maestro Team Members to divine the properties of parallel dynasties; it can be found here: https://textsynth.com/playground.html. Some actions might instruct you to generate something by Using the Paralleliser with a given seed list. To do so, open the Paralleliser. Set the Model to GPT-NeoX, the top-k to 400, the top-p to 0.9, the temperature to 1.0 and the max tokens to 200, leaving the ‘stop at’ field blank. Paste the seed list from the Dynasty Data page into the text box and repeatedly hit ‘Generate’ until the Paralleliser returns a list of five or more items that bear a resemblance to the items on the input list. Choose six distinct items from among those generated by the Paralleliser (ignoring the text in bold, which simply replicates your initial input, and any item after the last comma); randomly select one of these choices to be the generated item.

Add the following to be the first subrule to the rule Parallel Dynasties, called Default Information:

The Winner of a Parallel Dynasty is the same Persona as the Emperor of the subsequent Parallel Dynasty, if that Data is known.

The Ordinal of a Parallel Dynasty is blank unless the Emperor for that Parallel Dynasty is known. If the Emperor for that parallel dynasty is known and has appeared as Emperor before, either in another parallel dynasty with a lower number or in a Locked Dynasty, then the ordinal for this dynasty is one higher than it was in the most recent such other dynasty in which that name appears as Emperor.

If a Parallel Dynasty gains a value or has its value changed for any of the Data described in this subrule then any Maestro Team Member may update it at any time.

Add the following to be the second subrule to the rule Parallel Dynasties, called Learning:

As a Daily Action, a Maestro Team Member may learn of a parallel universe dynasty, which is an atomic action with the following steps:

* Select a Parallel Dynasty with one or more missing pieces of Data, and select one or more pieces of Data (other than the Ordinal or the Winner) that it lacks
** If the selected piece of Data is the Emperor: use the Paralleliser with a seed list of Emperors (101-199) list from the Dynasty Data page to generate a name. Set that name to be the Emperor of the parallel dynasty being discovered.
** If the selected piece of Data is the Theme: use the Paralleliser with a seed list of Themes (101-199) list from the Dynasty Data page to generate a theme. Set that theme to be the theme of the parallel dynasty being discovered.
** If the selected piece of Data is the Victory Style: randomly select the Dynasty’s Victory Style.
* Add the name of the Maestro Team Member performing this action to the Temporal footprint of the parallel dynasty being discovered.

Remove ‘Ordinal’ from the rule Distilled Possibility.

Create a rule called “Parallel Parallel Dynasties” with a Persistence value of 3:

As a Cresi Action, a Maestro Team Member who is Focused on a Dynasty may perform an atomic action called Dynasty Duplication with the following steps:
- Create a copy of the Dynasty which is your Focus.
- Set its number to the number of the numerically first Prime Dynasty with no existing parallel dynasties
- Set the ordinal for the duplicated parallel dynasty as follows: if the name in the Emperor field for this parallel dynasty has appeared before, either in another preceding parallel dynasty or in a Locked Dynasty, then the ordinal for this dynasty is one higher than it was in the most recent such other dynasty in which that name appears as Emperor (e.g. if the name for a new parallel dynasty is Dibjutor, and there is a pre-existing dynasty with an ordinal of third, then the new dynasty will have an ordinal of fourth); otherwise it is the default.
- Add, remove, or change one letter in the new Dynasty’s Theme. The new theme must obey the following three properties:
- 1. It may not already be contained within the list of Parallel Dynasties
- 2. All words appearing in it must be valid English words or BlogNomic terms
- 3. If the original theme contained the words “The” and/or “Dynasty” the new theme must contain those words as well.
- Add the name of the Maestro Team Member performing this action to the Temporal footprint of the parallel dynasty being discovered (if the Temporal Footprint did not already contain that name).

In the rule Parallel BlogNomic, change “As a Cresi Action, a Maestro Team Member may learn of a parallel universe dynasty” to “As a Daily Action, a Maestro Team Member may learn of a parallel universe dynasty”

Repeal the rule “Unraveling”.

Elevate SingularByte to Admin status.

Reword “Chicken Dinner [0]” to the following:

If there exists a Parallel Dynasty with an number of 200, and it is not Abstracted,  then the winner of that Parallel Dynasty has achieved victory.

Set the Threshold to 175.

Create a rule called “Scam Rating” with a Persistence value of 1. This rule has the text:

A Maestro Team Member may choose to perform an action as a Scammed Action. To do so, they must do the following:
-They choose an action in a rule which is Intangible for them.
-They increase their Paradox by the difference between the Variance of their Focus and the Persistence of the rule that the action belongs to.
-They perform the action, and the rule is not considered to be Intangible for the duration of this action.

If an action would not be eligible to be performed even if the Maestro Team Member had a high enough Variance on their Focus (whether due to unpaid costs or otherwise), then they are not able to perform the action as a Scammed Action.
A Maestro Team Member is only able to perform Scammed Actions a number of times per week less than or equal to their Inclination for Scams as defined in their SCP rating. This limit is considered collectively between all actions that they perform as a Scammed Action, rather than being a per-action limit.

Create a new rule called “Qubit Conservation”:

The Qubit Pool is a publicly tracked integer value (which may be negative) that defaults to 0.  Whenever the number of Qubits owned by a Persona or Parallel Dynasty is increased, decrease the Qubit Pool by that number.  Whenever the number of Qubits owned by a Persona or Parallel Dynasty is decreased, increase the Qubit Pool by that number.  (This does not apply when the number of Qubits belonging to a Persona or Parallel Dynasty are first set.)

If the Qubit Pool is positive, any Maestro Team Member with a nonzero inclination for Pooling may perform a daily atomic action known as Pool Extraction as follows:
- Increase the qubits of each other Maestro Team Member with a inclination for Pooling equal to or greater than yours by 1 qubit.
- If any Maestro Team Member gained qubits as a result of the previous step, increase your number of qubits by your inclination for Pooling.
- If the Qubit Pool is less than zero at this point, all Personas who gained qubits as a result of this action gain 1 paradox.

Add the following as a new Special Case rule, called Bounties [Rare][Active]:

A Bounty Notice is a post in the Story Posts category which broadly requests a single mechanical or ruleset change. A Bounty Notice may be Open or Closed, being Open by default and being when set to the ‘Closed’ category in the post backend.

This sentence names, at the end of this sentence after a colon, a single dynastic resource or variable, which is the Bounty Reward Variable for this dynasty: Qubits

The Space Maestro may post a Bounty Notice, close an open Bounty Notice, or change the Bounty Reward Variable in this rule at any time.

If the Space Maestro believes that an enacted votable matter satisfies the demand of an open Bounty Notice then they may iterate the Bounty Reward Variable of that votable matter’s author by a single step (unless that author was themselves) and set that Bounty Notice to closed.

Add the following as a new subrule to the rule Qubits, called Distilled Possibility:

A Maestro Team Member may take the Distil Possibilities action to change one aspect of the tracked information (Ordinal, Emperor, Theme or Style) about a Parallel Dynasty. The Distil Possibilities action is an atomic action with the following steps:

* Identify the Change Cost of the change to be made. The Change Cost of a change is 1, plus the Variance of the Parallel Dynasty to which the change is being applied, plus the Paradox of the Maestro Team Member carrying it out, minus the acting Maestro Team Member’s Inclination for Style of that Parallel Dynasty, minus three if the Parallel Dynasty in question is Abstracted, to a minimum of 1.
* Spend the Change Cost in Qubits
* Make the identified change

In the rule Parallel BlogNomic change “Each Dynasty of BlogNomic numbered between 101 (“The Third Machine of scshunt”) and 199 (“The Second Dynasty of Jumble”) - referred to as the Prime Dynasties - may have up to one parallel dynasty” to “Each Dynasty of BlogNomic numbered between 101 (“The Third Machine of scshunt”) and 200 (“The Seventeenth Dynasty of Josh”) - referred to as the Prime Dynasties - may have up to one parallel dynasty.”

In the rule Personas, change “for each uniquely named Emperor among the parallel dynasties” to “for each uniquely named Emperor (other than ‘None’) among the parallel dynasties”.

Add the following to the end of the rule Parallel BlogNomic:

Each Parallel Dynasty has a Winner, which is publicly tracked and set to a null string by default. For any given Parallel Dynasty, if at any time the subsequent Parallel Dynasty to it exists and has a named Persona (i.e. any value other than ‘None’) as its Emperor, set the Winner of it to be that Persona.

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset, called Chicken Dinner:

The Winner of Parallel Dynasty 200 has achieved Victory.

Increase the Qubits of every Persona by 1.

In the rule Variance, replace “Each Parallel Dynasty has a Variance score, which may be tracked on their history pages.” with

Each Parallel Dynasty has a Variance score, which is publicly tracked.

Add a subrule to the rule Variance, called Persistence:

Each dynastic rule has a score for Persistence, which is a non-negative integer that defaults to zero. The Persistence of a dynastic rule is shown next to its title, in brackets, but is not considered to be a part of its title for the purposes of referring to that rule. The Persistence of a rule applies to all of its subrules; a subrule does not have a distinct Persistence from its parent rule.

Whenever a Maestro Team Member has a non-blank Focus, any dynastic rule whose Persistence is higher than the Variance of the parallel dynasty that is their Focus are Intangible for that Maestro Team Member.

Only dynastic rules may be Intangible. When a rule is Intangible for a Maestro Team Member, that Maestro Team Member may not undertake any actions defined by that rule, and any provisions of that rule that would restrict any of their own actions do not apply. However, an Intangible rule does not cease to exist or become flavour text for any Maestro Team Member, and its instructions must be obeys as applied to any Maestro Team Member or Persona for whom it is not Intangible.

Set the Persistence of the following rules (if they exist) as follows:

Parallel BlogNomic: 0
SCP Ratings: 0
Personas: 0
Maestro Missions: 0
Variance: 0
Dharma: 2
Qubits: 3
Instability: 0
Multiversal Collision: 0
Unravelling: 2

Darknight becomes idle after 8 days of inactivity. Quorum drops to 6.

In the rule Qubits, replace the line “All personas and all parallel dynasties have a tracked value called qubits which starts at a value of 0 unless the starting value is stated otherwise by another rule.” with:

All personas and all parallel dynasties have a publicly tracked numeric value called qubits which can be any integer (including negative integers). By default, the qubit value starts at 0 unless the starting value is stated otherwise by another rule.

In the rule Qubit Mining, replace the line “If a Maestro Team Member has more than zero qubits, and if their name is included in the parallel list for the Parallel Dynasty which is their Focus, they may perform a daily atomic action called Qubit Mining as follows:” with

If a Maestro Team Member’s name is included in the parallel list for the Parallel Dynasty which is their Focus, and if that Focus has more than zero qubits, the Maestro Team Member may perform a daily atomic action called Qubit Mining as follows:

Reword the text in the rule “Qubits” that reads:

- Increase your qubits by the number of qubits on your Focus, less one for every Maestro Team Member sharing your Focus. If you would gain less than zero, instead gain zero.
- Increase the qubits of all Maestro Team Members who share a focus with you by 1 qubit.
- Reduce the qubits on the Focus by the total amount of qubits gained by Maestro Team Members as a result of this action’s steps.
- If the Focus has less than zero qubits at this point, all Maestro Team Members who gained qubits as a result of this action gain 1 paradox.

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- Increase the qubits of all other Maestro Team Members who share a focus with you by 1 qubit.  Reduce the qubits on the Focus by the total amount of qubits gained by Maestro Team Members as a result of this step.

- If your Focus has a positive number of qubits remaining, gain that many qubits and set the number of qubits on the focus to zero.

- If the Focus has less than zero qubits at this point, all Maestro Team Members who gained qubits as a result of this action gain 1 paradox.

In “SCP Ratings”, append the following:

As a Weekly Action, any Maestro Team Member may decrease one digit of their SCP Rating by 1, and increase one digit of their SCP Rating by 1.

Create a new rule called “Unraveling”:

The Threshold is a publicly tracked integer variable that defaults to 200, and represents the last Dynasty that has not been destroyed due to the destabilization of the fabric of reality.  As a Daily Action, the Space Maestro may decrease the Threshold by 1.
If a Parallel Dynasty’s Number is higher than the Threshold, that Dynasty is considered to be Abstracted.  Abstracted Parallel Dynasties cannot be the target of any Dynastic action.  While a Abstracted Parallel Dynasty exists, Maestro Team Members cannot take the “learn of a parallel universe dynasty” atomic action.

Append the following to the rule Personas:

If a Persona that is not a Maestro Team Member manages to achieve victory, any Maestro Team Member that has continuously had that Persona in an alliance for the last 48 hours is also considered to have achieved victory.

Reword the sentence in the rule “Parallel BlogNomic” that reads “Randomly select one of the items generated by the Paralleliser (ignoring the text in bold, which simply replicates your initial input, and any item after the last comma) to be the generated item” to:

Choose six distinct items from among those generated by the Paralleliser (ignoring the text in bold, which simply replicates your initial input, and any item after the last comma); randomly select one of these choices to be the generated item.

Reword the text in the rule “Qubits” that reads

When you meet the following conditions, you may perform an atomic action known as Qubit Mining as a daily action:
-Your Focus has an amount of qubits greater than zero
-You are in the Parallel List for your Focus
When you perform Qubit Mining, you do the following:

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If a Maestro Team Member has more than zero qubits, and if their name is included in the parallel list for the Parallel Dynasty which is their Focus, they may perform a daily atomic action called Qubit Mining as follows:

Add a new dynastic rule titled “Multiversal Collision”:

During Interregnum, if there is at least one parallel dynasty, the Space Maestro must select a parallel dynasty before they may complete the Atomic Action that starts a new dynasty. The theme of the parallel dynasty that is selected in this way will be the theme of the new dynasty. If the Space Maestro Passes the Mantle after selecting a parallel dynasty, the new Space Maestro cannot and does not need to select a new parallel dynasty.

Reword the sentence in the rule “Parallel BlogNomic” that reads “Randomly select one of the items generated by the Paralleliser (ignoring the text in bold, which simply replicates your initial input, and any item after the last comma) to be the generated item” to:

Choose any ten of the items generated by the Paralleliser (ignoring the text in bold, which simply replicates your initial input, and any item after the last comma); randomly select one of these choices to be the generated item.

Append the following to the rule SCP Ratings:

A Persona which is not a Maestro Team Member has an SCP rating which is calculated as follows; That Persona starts with an SCP rating of 000, then for each of the Parallel Dynasties in which the persona is an emperor:
-Add one to the first digit of that persona’s SCP rating if the dynasty’s victory style is Scamming
-Add one to the second digit of that persona’s SCP rating if the dynasty’s victory style is Conventional Play
-Add one to the third digit of that persona’s SCP rating if the dynasty’s victory style is Pooling

Enact a rule called Qubits:

All personas and all parallel dynasties have a tracked value called qubits which starts at a value of 0 unless the starting value is stated otherwise by another rule.

As a daily action, you can transfer any positive integer of qubits from yourself to a persona or to a parallel dynasty which is not your Focus, so long as this integer is not greater than the number of qubits you hold.

As a Cresi Action, a Maestro Team Member may increase the paradox of all Maestro Team Members holding qubits by 1.

Enact a subrule of Qubits called Qubit Mining:

When you meet the following conditions, you may perform an atomic action known as Qubit Mining as a daily action:
-Your Focus has an amount of qubits greater than zero
-You are in the Parallel List for your Focus
When you perform Qubit Mining, you do the following:
-Increase your qubits by the number of qubits on your Focus, less one for every Maestro Team Member sharing your Focus. If you would gain less than zero, instead gain zero.
-Increase the qubits of all Maestro Team Members who share a focus with you by 1 qubit.
-Reduce the qubits on the Focus by the total amount of qubits gained by Maestro Team Members as a result of this action’s steps.
-If the Focus has less than zero qubits at this point, all Maestro Team Members who gained qubits as a result of this action gain 1 paradox.
As an example of this, if players A, B and C and D have a Focus of The Example Dynasty which has 2 qubits and player A performs qubit mining, then players B, C and D gain 1 qubit and player A would gain 0 qubits as they cannot gain -1 qubits. The Example Dynasty has -1 qubits total as a result, and players B, C and D all gain 1 paradox.

In the rule Parallel BlogNomic, append the following step to the “Learn of a Parallel Universe” atomic action:

Set the number of qubits of the parallel dynasty being discovered to its Variance.

Set the qubits of all existing parallel dynasties at the time of this proposals Enactment to their current Variance.

Create a rule called Instability:

Before {Date}, Maestro Team Members may not set their Focus to a parallel dynasty which another player has as their Focus. This rule may be deleted by an admin at any time after said date has passed.

When enacting this proposal, replace “{Date}” with the date and time exactly two days after the time of this proposal being enacted.
If any Maestro Team Members have the same Focus as another Maestro Team Member at the time of enactment, then do the following for each such Focus:
Set the Focus of each Maestro Team Members with that Focus to nothing, so long as that Maestro Team Member has held it for less than 48 hours. This Focus removal is not to be performed on the Maestro Team Member with that focus that has continuously held it for the longest time at the time of enactment, counting from when they most recently gained that Focus.

I’d like to un-idle, since this looks like an interesting one.

Enact a new rule, “Dharma”:-

Each Maestro Team Member has a Dharma, which is a publicly-tracked text string. It is not flavour text.

At any time, a Maestro Team Member may change their Dharma to any Pure sentence from the dynastic history page of the Parallel Dynasty which is their Focus.

To “Parallel BlogNomic”, add:-

If a sentence of text in the gamestate was generated by the Paralleliser, and does not include any of the words that were present in the starting text used to generate it, then that text is considered Pure. (Flavour text may be considered to be English text with no meaning in game terms, for the purposes of checking whether it contains Pure sentences.)

Reword the sentence in the rule “SCP Ratings” that reads “A Persona cannot take Cresi actions if their Inclination for Conventional Play is zero” to

A Persona cannot set their own Cresi Cube to Powered if their Inclination for Conventional Play is zero.

Reword the sentence in the rule “Parallel BlogNomic” that begins “Each parallel universe dynasty must have a number…” as follows:

Each parallel universe dynasty must have a number (which is the same as the number of the Prime Dynasty it is associated with), an ordinal (a non-negative ordinal integer defaulting to First), an Emperor, a Victory Style (which may only be one word from the set {Conventional, Scam, Pooling}), and a theme, which is flavour text. All of these are publicly tracked.

Insert as the penultimate step of the “learn of a parallel universe dynasty” atomic action in the rule “Parallel BlogNomic” the following:

Randomly select the Dynasty’s Victory Style.

Randomly assign a Victory Style to each Parallel Dynasty discovered so far.

To the second paragraph of “Parallel Dynastic Histories”, add:

Apart from the list of active Players in a dynasty, all content on a parallel dynasty’s history page is flavour text.

Kevan will mentor GloopyGhost until 1 April 2022 or the end of this dynasty, whichever comes later.

Add the following as a second paragraph to the rule Parallel Dynastic Histories:

All information held on a parallel dynastic history page is gamestate but not ruletext. No Maestro Team Member may undertake any action that is not explicitly described in or authorised by the ruleset; a parallel dynastic history page may not grant itself legitimacy nor imply that it is a legitimate ruleset document.

Enact the proposal found here: https://blognomic.com/archive/a_tentative_toe_in_the_water. In the rule it creates, change “a Key Proposal with a relevant title of the poster’s choice” to “a Key Proposal with a relevant title (which is flavour text) of the poster’s choice”.

I would like to (in)formally submit my application to become a Maestro Team Member. I promise not to cause any universe-destroying paradoxes (except by accident).

Change the text of the “Subrule” keyword to read as follows:

A subrule is a type of rule that is hierarchically ordered beneath another rule. Rules and proposals that refer to a rule do not also refer to its subrules, unless otherwise specified.

A mysterious figure steps out of a sudden dimensional rift. It glances around, noting that there seems to be some issue. A bunch of Maestro team members running around like chickens with their heads cut off will give off that impression. After looking around, and seeing the reason that everyone is panicking, he frowns.

“Ah,” he says, “I appear to be ever so slightly late.”

I unidle, and hopefully actually do something this dynasty.

Add a new subrule to the rule Parallel Dynastic Histories, called Parallel Rules:

Any Parallel Dynastic History that has undergone the Ascension Research atomic action may be the target of the Gameplay Research atomic action.

Gameplay Research is an atomic Cresi Action that any Maestro Team Member may carry out. It has the following steps:
* The Maestro Team Member carrying out this action may select one dynastic rule that is recorded on the ruleset linked to from the dynastic history page of the Prime Dynasty with the same number as the parallel dynasty in question. The selected rule must have been proposed and enacted during the prime dynasty in question; if no such rule exists then this action fails and all subsequent steps are not carried out.
* The selected text should then be privately copied and amended as follows: the thematic terms for Emperor and Player should be replaced with those from the parallel dynasty; the following text should be appended to the beginning of the selection: “In [theme] we shall play the game by the following rule:” where [theme] is replaced with the theme of the parallel dynasty; changing any non-player-or-emperor-synonymous nouns in the text to nouns that are appropriate to the theme of the parallel dynasty, consistently changing each noun to the same term when they reappear.
* Use that text as a seed in the Paralleliser. Add the output, up until the end of the last complete sentence, to the Parallel Dynastic History in question as a Key Proposal with a relevant title of the poster’s choice.

Instead of separating tokens by line breaks, (or by commas and line breaks if “Comma Convenience” has passed,) change the seed lists in the Dynasty Data wiki page to have the tokens separated by a comma and a space.

Change “Randomly select one of the items generated by the Paralleliser (ignoring the text in bold, which simply replicates your initial input, and the last line of its output) to be the generated item.” to

Randomly select one of the items generated by the Paralleliser (ignoring the text in bold, which simply replicates your initial input, and any item after the last comma) to be the generated item.

In the “Dynasty Data” page, append a “,” after every entry in every list item on the page.

Append to the atomic action defined in the rule “Parallel Dynastic Histories” the following:

* Set their own Cresi Cube to Powered.

In “Parallel Dynastic Histories”  replace

which should, if possible, have a title that takes the format of “The xth parallel dynasty of y” where x is the dynasty’s ordinal and y is the dynasty’s emperor)

with

which should, if possible, have a title that takes the format of “The xth parallel dynasty of y” where xth is the dynasty’s ordinal and y is the dynasty’s emperor)

Uphold the choice to use this new naming scheme in the creation of any such pages.

I think it might be a good time for me to idle.

Ping me for next dynasty

To the rule “SCP Ratings”, add:-

If a Maestro Team Member’s SCP Rating is 000, they may change it to any three non-negative integers which add up to 3.

A Persona cannot take Cresi actions if their Inclination for Conventional Play is zero.

A Persona cannot change their Alliance to a number of names which is greater than their Inclination for Pooling, or have their name added to an Alliance if it is already in a number of Alliances equal to their Inclination for Pooling.

If any Personas with an Inclination for Pooling of zero have Alliances, remove those Alliances. If any Personas with an Inclination for Pooling of zero appear in the Alliances of other Personas, remove their names from those Alliances.

Repeal the Appendix rule “Cross-Nomic Relationships”.

If Proposal: Brendan#8964 was not enacted then this proposal has no effect.

Add the following to the end of the rule Parallel Player Lists:

Whenever a Maestro Team Member sets a Parallel Dynasty as their Focus they must add themselves to the parallel list for that dynasty. They may, if they wish, augment their entry on the parallel list with a disguise, which is a short (no more than ten words) statement fully enclosed in curly braces immediately after their name explaining how they have concealed their identity. Any such disguise statement is flavour text and may not introduce any new formating elements to the wiki page on which it is contained.