From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sat Jul 21 2001 - 11:35:26 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com> Wrote:
> Most other decoy shapes will, in some orientation, not look like a possible
>shape of a cone.
And that's why most shapes other than cones would make poor decoys, unless
of course you put your cone shaped warhead in a round balloon. No enemy would
use an undisguised cone shaped warhead and round decoys, I'm sorry, one round
decoy.
>A sensor must not respond to all possible shapes of a decoy.
Which a spherical shape will not test for.
> A sphere is more like a cone than a cone is like a cone.
Said the Mad Hatter.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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