Re: Riddles (was: Lateral Thinking)

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sun Dec 31 2000 - 14:34:29 MST


Circulatory system?

"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> Damien Broderick wrote:
> >
> > At 04:37 PM 30/12/00 -0500, Eliezer wrote:
> >
> > >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.
> >
> > Well even if you're a HETERO ETHER-sniffing OTTER on a TETHER, HEH, by my
> > TROTH, I dunno about your siblings, double boxhood or claim, so I'm saying
> > nothing.
>
> Okay, I didn't understand that at all, including the capitalized parts, so
> I'll have to rate that as a 'miss'.
>
> Here's another one:
>
> I am the path you keep inside
> Six feet long and two feet wide
> Walk a mile to my other side -
> Who am I?
>
> -- -- -- -- --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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