Cyan2 comments on The Parable of the Dagger - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan2 05 February 2008 11:51:35PM 3 points [-]

JonathanG,

Actually, the third bull is just straight up lying. (That's why Dmitriy called the puzzle silly.)

Comment author: Chalybs_Levitas 19 November 2011 01:13:26PM 0 points [-]

Oh, I assumed that they were walking in a circle and the third bull was counting both ahead of him and behind him, even though those bulls are both the same, on the assumption that 'single file' =/= 'straight line'.