Alicorn comments on Innate Mathematical Ability - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 18 February 2015 03:49:08PM 6 points [-]

Out of curiosity, what is the correct answer to the example Raven's item? One of the answer candidates popped out to me immediately as the most likely one, and I'm interested to know whether that's a sign of me having superior pattern recognition ability or whether a part of me just wants to believe that.

Comment author: Alicorn 18 February 2015 05:34:02PM 2 points [-]

V guvax vg'f ahzore gjb. Va rnpu pbyhza, gur funcr ba gbc trgf pebffcvrprf nqqrq naq vgf pbearef erzbirq, gura unf gur pbearef erghearq, xrrcf gur pebffcvrprf, naq ybfrf vgf zvqqyr.

Comment author: somervta 28 February 2015 05:47:56AM 1 point [-]

Huh. I got the same answer, but a different way.

Rnpu vgrz vf znqr hc bs gur cerfrapr be nofrapr bs bar bs fvk onfvp ryrzragf. Rnpu ryrzrag nccrnef sbhe gvzrf, rkprcg gubfr gjb.

Comment author: Magnap 07 May 2015 05:28:23PM *  0 points [-]

I got the same answer in a third way.
Gur ynfg vgrz va n ebj vf znqr sebz rirelguvat va gur svefg gjb cynprf, rkprcg gung juvpu gurl unir va pbzzba.
EDIT: There's a simpler name for what I did: KBE, ubevmbagnyyl.

Comment author: slicko 28 February 2015 04:49:57AM 0 points [-]

What code or syntax is this?

Comment author: Alicorn 28 February 2015 05:06:09AM 1 point [-]

It's rot-13.