Re: so help me who?

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Feb 17 2001 - 19:37:59 MST


Spike Jones wrote:
>
> Question, please Greg Burch. I havent been in a court trial in...
> well, ever, but they used to make a witness put her hand on
> a bible and swear to tell the truth so help her god.
>
> Do they still do that? [...] If I brought a copy of Hofstadter's
> Escher Godel Bach and asked to substitute, would that fly? spike

BLASPHEMER! The One True Name of the Great and Holy Book is "Gödel,
Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid." You'll writhe for this, heretic!

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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