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53 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 February 2008 08:53PM

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Comment author: Nebu 01 September 2015 07:58:23AM 0 points [-]

Sorry, it's not clear to me why you wrote this reply. Are you trying to dispute something I said, or are you bringing up an interesting observation for discussion, or what?

Comment author: entirelyuseless 01 September 2015 01:13:03PM 1 point [-]

It sounds like Jiro was saying that the Jester really does not assume that "The content of the boxes can be deduced from the the inscriptions." He just assumes "The inscriptions are either true or false," and it logically follows from what the inscriptions say that he can deduce the contents. So the problem wasn't making an assumption about how the contents could be discovered, but making an assumption that the inscriptions had to be either true or false.

Comment author: Jiro 01 September 2015 03:24:16PM *  0 points [-]

That is correct.

Comment author: Nebu 11 September 2015 02:37:14AM 0 points [-]

Ok, thank you for that clarification.