ME3 comments on Passing the Recursive Buck - Less Wrong

15 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 June 2008 04:50AM

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Comment author: ME3 16 June 2008 04:01:50PM 0 points [-]

In other words, the algorithm is,

explain_box(box) { if(|box.boxes| > 1) print(boxes) else explain_box(box.boxes[0]) }

which works for most real-world concepts, but gets into an infinite loop if the concept is irreducible.