Enginerd comments on The Parable of the Dagger - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Enginerd 01 February 2008 10:08:27PM 13 points [-]

It's a dressed up version of "This sentence is a lie". It's only self referential, so it's truth value can't be determined in any meaningful, empirical sense.

Jester should've remembered the primary rule of logic: Don't make somebody look like an idiot if they can kill you.