My chapter at University of the Pacific doesn't even have a website right now. We have a forum that doesn't get used, and the club is filled with gamers that don't have very much motivation to do anything related to programming. I'm going to try to start an SICP project group next semester, but right now no one's trying to do anything educational or new.
I don't understand how shared assumptions being the basis of logical argument constitutes a flaw. Could you explain this further?
We argue about experiences in science all the time. We do this by documenting steps regarding how we rendered our experience so that other people may also experience what we did and perform measurements and comparisons and analyzations, et cetera, and once we've done that, we can apply other intellectual tools we have, like logic.
How do I render a religious experience for myself?
I have to agree - having to sign up before trying it out stinks. Rig up a robot if you must, or allow only eight moves, or have a separate lobby for unregistered users.