AlexanderD comments on Just One Sentence - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 January 2013 01:27AM

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Comment author: Mestroyer 05 January 2013 04:28:52AM 23 points [-]

"Most diseases are caused by tiny little mindless creatures the reproduce and spread quickly and live in sick people's bodies, and quite a few of them can be killed be a certain mold that you can grow on bread."

Hmm, how many "and's" can I put in this one sentence? This reminds me of a competition for extra credit in one of my CS classes to write a C++ program in "as few statements as possible," where I took the obvious algorithm, completely unrolled the loop, and used logical connectives to stick every statement together into one. I skipped class the day the winner was announced, and the teacher later said he changed the rules and let the class vote for a winner, which wasn't me.

Comment author: AlexanderD 05 January 2013 04:37:26AM 16 points [-]

I like to think about initial application of this sentence.

"How old is this bread? A week? You fool! Look at how sick he is! Get some two-week bread immediately, and feed it to him as fast as you can! NO TIME FOR CHEWING."