From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 15:47:45 MST
Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 10:52 AM 4/01/01 +0100, Anders wrote:
>
> >They also used it as a weapon during the Great War, according to a
> >mock documentary in the skit: british soldiers who did not speak
> >German learned one line each, and then read it aloud.
>
> Who did the German translation in the first place?
Each translator did one word. One man accidentally caught a glimpse of
two words and had to be hospitalized for three weeks.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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