Riddles (was: Lateral Thinking)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Dec 31 2000 - 09:56:03 MST


Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 04:37 PM 30/12/00 -0500, Eliezer wrote:
>
> >I am two boxes, each inside the other;
> >I am myself, I have no brother;
> >I am exactly what I claim;
> >If you guess this riddle, speak my name.
>
> Well even if you're a HETERO ETHER-sniffing OTTER on a TETHER, HEH, by my
> TROTH, I dunno about your siblings, double boxhood or claim, so I'm saying
> nothing.

Okay, I didn't understand that at all, including the capitalized parts, so
I'll have to rate that as a 'miss'.

Here's another one:

I am the path you keep inside
Six feet long and two feet wide
Walk a mile to my other side -
Who am I?

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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