From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 20:06:19 MST
Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 01:40 PM 1/23/02 -0500, Rafal wrote:
>
> > Damien Broderick asked: Why did the mome rath outgribe?
>
> ### Maybe because the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
>
> No, they might have done it anyway; the obvious explanation is `Because it
> was brillig', but I distrust causality of that post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc
> kind. Rathsome outgribing might have *contributed* to the brilligness.
I don't see why you're picking on the mome raths here.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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