Re: Lateral Thinking

From: Dale Johnstone (DaleJohnstone@email.com)
Date: Sun Dec 31 2000 - 16:36:47 MST


[Non-member submission]

Second guess:

You are two boxes, each inside the other, etc.

You are exactly what you claim.

The riddle is a meta-riddle. It's not actually a riddle. The riddle is it's
own solution.

If that's wrong then I give up! :)

Dale Johnstone.

----- 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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