thread: 2014-02-03 : Some Basic Rules (vii)
On 2014-02-08, Josh W wrote:
A rare but uncontrovertial commitment could be anything with a low scope in terms of affecting people outside of you, but will not be shared with many others. So "I should spend my life creating tiny sculptures of cars".
It's rarity makes it suprising, but once you live next to it and realise it actually changes little, it doesn't matter.
I love that you run it off set collection!
It occurs to me that when someone rewrites their commitments, they would also have to change the rating. I imagine the procedure could be something like this:
When you rewrite one of your commitments to something that doesn't match the existing commitments on the module, find the closest existing commitment. If it seems like it matches one of them but is slightly different, use it's rating reduced by 1, to a minimum of -2. If you as a group decide that it's actually the same after all, choose that commitment instead and write a note next to it on the module about the extra things it means.
If it doesn't match any of them at all, choose -1.
Or the lazy generic version:
When you create a commitment that does not already exist in your modules, they will say who decides the new rating and how.
This makes JMW go "There's a little gap of thinking between paras 2 and 3"
