From: Dale Johnstone (DaleJohnstone@email.com)
Date: Sun Dec 31 2000 - 05:49:24 MST
[Non-member submission]
A cube of inward facing mirrors,
or a block of glass (internal reflection),
or a box camera picture of itself,
or a TV image of itself (video feedback),
or at a stretch:
A regular box turned inside out. The inside now contains the outside.
A regular box turned inside out. It contains the whole Universe, which
includes itself.
You can put me out of my misery now... :)
Cheers,
Dale Johnstone.
AI Researcher.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: Lateral Thinking
> 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.
>
> -- -- -- -- --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
>
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