Tom3 comments on Chronophone Motivations - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 March 2007 05:23PM

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Comment author: Tom3 25 March 2007 01:08:31PM 4 points [-]

I would say:

"To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion."

Find the meta level in that, Chronophone!

Comment author: DSimon 23 August 2011 05:17:04PM *  13 points [-]

The Chronophone would output one of Zeno's Paradoxes (the one about the arrows), which like your quote is also a clever mathematics-related statement that, while potentially enlightening to think about, is clearly not actually true.