From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2000 - 12:11:39 MST
Rafael Anschau wrote:
>
> Things are easier once you create a checklist to take care of daily
> practicalities. At least I don't run the risk
> of going to school with my shirt backwards anymore.
Michael LaTorra wrote:
>
> Many of us are definitely better at the abstract than the practical. This
> reminds me of the humorous Personality Test for Programmers that was going
> around the Net some years ago. It consisted of a long list of questions. In
> the middle of the list this pair of questions appeared:
>
> 23. Do your socks match?
>
> 24. Did you have to look?
*ZZZZzzzt*
shock level has dropped to ZERO
please raise or terminate thread
no offense
cheers
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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