Larks comments on Rationality Quotes: December 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 03 December 2010 05:47:34PM 8 points [-]

That reminds me: when I was little, there was a puzzle in a happy meal that said, "Rearrange these letters to spell something that can make a canoe sink: ELAK." The correct answer, of course, was "leak". I was upset, because my answer was "a elk". (And now that I think about it, if you draw this as a causal diagram, "lake" should be a valid answer too.)

Comment author: Larks 03 December 2010 06:25:55PM 6 points [-]

Clearly causality is secondary to grammar; had it been 'ELANK' you would have been right.