It appears as if Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:
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|_Metamagical Themas_, p. 582, "Analogies and Roles in Human and Machine
|Thinking". Considers questions of the form, "If abc goes to abd, then
|what does pqrs go to? What does bcd go to? What does xyz go to?"
The most obvious solution to the pattern replacement algorithm on the example: ``Replace last character in pattern with next in collating sequence.''.
Therefore the answer depends on the character collating sequence used.
Assuming standard Western form alphabet, the following answers hold:
0) pqrt 1) bce
For the last question, the standard Western form alphabet lacks a collating sequence for ``next character'' for the Z character. Theerfore, several possibilities arise:
2.a) xya [circular]
2.b) none [no ``next'' defined]
2.c) xy{ [ASCII, ISO-8859-1]
2.d) xyå [Swedish language]
2.e) xyä [some other European languages]
etc., ad nauseam.