Houshalter comments on Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps - Less Wrong

75 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 August 2008 01:00AM

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Comment author: TobyBartels 01 August 2016 08:59:15AM 0 points [-]

But it seems weird to me that they have computers and algorithms if they can't figure out this pattern. That messed with my suspension of disbelief for a bit.

Comment author: Houshalter 06 August 2016 07:03:21PM 0 points [-]

Well if the pattern was too complicated, then a reader of the blog post wouldn't be able to notice it.

Comment author: TobyBartels 19 October 2016 11:46:28AM 0 points [-]

Sure, that explains why the story was written with this flaw, but it doesn't remove the flaw. But I don't have a better suggestion.