"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
> Spike Jones wrote:
> >
> > etc. We could find some goofy line of reasoning for anything
> > you want to prove. You can do the same trick with ...
> > ...Escher Godel Bach.
>
> Maybe, but I bet it'd be a heck of a lot harder with "Gödel, Escher,
> Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid."
>
> Remember, Spike, every time you misquote the name of the Great Eternal
> Book you risk vengeance at the hands of a frenzied mob of machete-wielding
> Hofstadter fans.
Do forgive my blammesphies. I do often goof that title, since I expect
the names to have the same letter order as Eternal Golden Braid. {8-]
> The FMMWHF does not take kindly to blasphemy. AND it
> destroys your moral fiber.
Ah, but there I have taken the precaution of destroying my every
moral fiber beforehand, so as to make me impervious to further
destruction.
Actually GEB:EGB would be a more difficult source from which
to base doctrine, because we have no concordance nor soft copy.
That I know of. We need one. spike
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