From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 22:49:04 MST
Spike Jones wrote:
>
> For instance: my neices, ages 5 and 7 at the time, knew that
> when someone is in trouble they are in the doghouse. They
> have no dog, but they have a birdhouse that is being used
> by a local squirrel. They refer to it as the chipmunk house.
> One of them said to the other "You are in the chipmunk
> house." Or rather meant to, but it came out "chipbunk
> house." Those two laughed over that for about an hour.
> I thought they were going to die laughing. Too bad we
> elders cant get that tickled over anything. On the other
> hand we have sex and they dont, so we can call it even. spike
I don't want to get started off on my own foot here, but let's not forget
that everybody has their own fish.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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