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Eneasz comments on Exercise in dissolving - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Eneasz 14 March 2013 04:40PM

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Comment author: Eneasz 15 March 2013 04:32:12PM -1 points [-]

It struck me as dissolving because gelvat gb nafjre gur dhrfgvba yrnqf gb pbashfvba, naq bayl hcba rknzvavat bar'f nffhzcgvbaf naq erzbivat gurz qbrf bar ernyvmr gur dhrfgvba vgfrys vf jebat. It sounds like people agree that this is a poor post title though, do you have any suggestions that would be clearer?

Comment author: [deleted] 15 March 2013 05:18:36PM 1 point [-]

gelvat gb nafjre gur dhrfgvba yrnqf gb pbashfvba, naq bayl hcba rknzvavat bar'f nffhzcgvbaf naq erzbivat gurz qbrf bar ernyvmr gur dhrfgvba vgfrys vf jebat

That reminds me of the puzzle where you have to touch all of the nine dots on a 3x3 square array with at most four line segments and without ever taking the pencil off the page, which znal crbcyr pna'g qb orpnhfr gurl qba'g ernyvmr gurl'er nyybjrq gb yrnir gur fdhner qryvzvgrq ol gur bhgre qbgf.

It sounds like people agree that this is a poor post title though, do you have any suggestions that would be clearer?

I can't think of anything decent (except trivial stuff like “Interesting self-referential question on Memedroid”) at the moment.