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RichardKennaway comments on Is lossless information transfer possible? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 08 August 2012 08:33:51PM 4 points [-]

It's on scribd here. It's rather different from the urban legend version, and crucially does not contain the step of monkeys who have never experienced the hosing (actually an air blast) stopping the new monkey from reaching for the banana (actually just described as "an object").