Re: Lateral Thinking

From: Dale Johnstone (DaleJohnstone@email.com)
Date: Sun Dec 31 2000 - 05:49:24 MST


[Non-member submission]

A cube of inward facing mirrors,

or a block of glass (internal reflection),

or a box camera picture of itself,

or a TV image of itself (video feedback),

or at a stretch:
A regular box turned inside out. The inside now contains the outside.
A regular box turned inside out. It contains the whole Universe, which
includes itself.

You can put me out of my misery now... :)

Cheers,
Dale Johnstone.
AI Researcher.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: Lateral Thinking

> I am two boxes, each inside the other;
> I am myself, I have no brother;
> I am exactly what I claim;
> If you guess this riddle, speak my name.
>
> -- -- -- -- --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
>



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