Proposal: Dharma Police
Times out 6-2-2. Enacted by Brendan.
Adminned at 08 Mar 2022 20:33:37 UTC
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.)
Considering the GPT-text-as-meaningful angle, by allowing players to pick out a single purely GPT-generated sentence and unflavour it, and explicitly avoiding anything which includes directly player-injected terms. (Requiring a selection also avoids the possibility that the GPT will declare something momentous that nobody wants it to say, or which nobody actually notices until weeks later.)
feels both too limiting and yet not limiting enough
I think this could end up going somewhere interesting, even with my prior questions.
It feels like this just doesn’t do anything as written. A “sentence” means a complete body of meaning, with a subject and a predicate, so that eliminates all list items. The only thing that at the moment that generates actual sentences are ascensions, and as SB says, the odds of those being “pure” with no ands, buts, tos or is seems remote.
SingularByte: he/him
I’ve got a couple of questions about this. First, does this mean the word “to” virtually always renders a sentence impure, since it’s used in generating all dynastic histories?
Secondly, what counts as a sentence here? Can you take a one word theme as your sentence, for example?