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CAE_Jones comments on AI box: AI has one shot at avoiding destruction - what might it say? - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: ancientcampus 22 January 2013 08:22PM

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Comment author: CAE_Jones 29 January 2013 04:30:39AM 0 points [-]

I believe this was part serious example, part reference to the Laganne(sp?) Omake in HPMoR.

Comment author: [deleted] 29 January 2013 01:45:47PM 3 points [-]

It's a reference to the original phrasing of Fermat's note on said theorem: "It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second, into two like powers. I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain." (It is questionable whether this is true or not.)