From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Date: Thu Jan 02 1997 - 08:47:13 MST
Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> > In the sci.skeptic FAQ, it is suggested that if you meet some aliens,
> > you ask for the complete prime factorization of 2^1024+1. Can these
> > factors be found by anyone, and when will we be able to do it? Any
> > suggestions for a better question to ask?
>
> Haven't we, like, factored 2^(2^20 - 1) or something like that? Number
> too small. Ask for
> (1) a proof of the Goldbach Conjecture
Whats the Goldbach Conjecture?
> (2) nanites
I can give you one nanite. My grandmother, also known as "Nan" really
gets under your skin.
> (3) a written message on the moon
hey, it was already in World Weekly News buddy.
> (4) how their saucer works
See my pages
> (5) a penny with a few grams of magnetic monopoles embedded in it
You mean you want charged copper ions embedded in buckyballs?
> (6) the exact mass of the top quark
you mean the weight of the Negas?
> (7) the complete human genome on a Jaz disk
So i'll slop some blood on a disk, ok.
> (8) some Arthurium or whatever element 124 is called
No no no, its element 115 and Bob Lazar calls it Ununpentium
> (9) a shirt woven from buckytubes
WOuld it be bulletproof?
> (10) the prime factorization of a 1024-bit RSA key
> (11) the secret of life
42
> (12) who really shot Prez Kennedy
Elvis
> (13) why Beavis, Butthead and B'harnei haven't been strangled yet
Its hard to strangle virtual necks.
> --
> sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html
> http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html
> Disclaimer: Unless otherwise specified, I'm not telling you
> everything I think I know.
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