Tim_Tyler 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: Tim_Tyler 12 August 2008 07:11:11AM 2 points [-]

As with most species who suspect they may be a victim of Fisherian runaway sexual selection, the pebblesorters would do well to imagine what would happen if they encountered an alien predator: probably lots of piles of zero size.