Are you perhaps thinking of Suber’s original, paper-and-tabletop, Nomic ruleset? The codenomics I’ve seen tend to consist of little other than bare self-amendment (direct democracy, generally). They’re considerably simpler than most natural-language email nomics, which in turn tend to be perhaps strictly more complex than Suber, but also less intimidating in the style of prose.
Fire-the-CEO is no good as an early test system. It may be temptingly simple, but it will never actually be put into practice until after the theory has been fairly well-established, because you don’t trust something important like the CEO to a system that’s still being tested.
A test implementation needs to be a toy system, one that won’t damage anything important if the theory turns out to be wrong. (It wouldn’t need testing if you already knew what would happen.) Hence, a computer game.
Are you perhaps thinking of Suber’s original, paper-and-tabletop, Nomic ruleset? The codenomics I’ve seen tend to consist of little other than bare self-amendment (direct democracy, generally). They’re considerably simpler than most natural-language email nomics, which in turn tend to be perhaps strictly more complex than Suber, but also less intimidating in the style of prose.
Fire-the-CEO is no good as an early test system. It may be temptingly simple, but it will never actually be put into practice until after the theory has been fairly well-established, because you don’t trust something important like the CEO to a system that’s still being tested.
A test implementation needs to be a toy system, one that won’t damage anything important if the theory turns out to be wrong. (It wouldn’t need testing if you already knew what would happen.) Hence, a computer game.