From: Dale Johnstone (DaleJohnstone@email.com)
Date: Sun Dec 31 2000 - 22:06:40 MST
Aha! Got it at last! (Please ignore my third attempt).
I suspected you'd try some Hofstadter-style meta-trickery, especially after
that blank post you posted as the ultimate 'When I Was a Boy' response. (See
'Re: Clarification and limited apology' thread on Dec 21). Did anyone else
notice that?
I tried pulling the same stunt for my Art A-Level at college. The blank
sheet of paper certainly made my Art teacher laugh. It did nothing for my
grade though!
Thanks for a great puzzle Eli.
Happy New Year everyone!
Cheers,
Dale Johnstone.
AI Researcher.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: Lateral Thinking
> Dale Johnstone wrote:
> >
> > Second guess:
> >
> > You are two boxes, each inside the other, etc.
> >
> > You are exactly what you claim.
> >
> > The riddle is a meta-riddle. It's not actually a riddle. The riddle is
it's
> > own solution.
> >
> > If that's wrong then I give up! :)
> >
> > Dale Johnstone.
>
> TA-DA!
>
> > ----- 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;
>
> The answer containing the riddle, the riddle containing the answer.
>
> > > I am myself, I have no brother;
>
> The two are one.
>
> > > I am exactly what I claim;
>
> The substance of its own text.
>
> > > If you guess this riddle, speak my name.
>
> Congratulations to Dale Johnstone for guessing 'this riddle'.
>
> -- -- -- -- --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
>
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