I had a slightly different answer, but didn't post yesterday, because I wanted to see what answers other people had.
My answer is to follow this protocol: if the door is closed, duplicate yourself. If the door is open, walk through it. Eventually, you will be the duplicate that walks through the door. Cheers On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 12:05:07PM -0400, John Clark wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > You find yourself in a sealed room. There is only one exit, a door. The > > next person to open the door will be killed, at which point the door will > > be disarmed. Fortunately for you, there is a duplication machine in the > > room that makes an exact replica of whatever is placed inside. How do you > > get out of the room? > > > I just open the door of course; and your description was quite incorrect. > No person will be killed when that door is opened because the person of > John Clark is an adjective not a noun, John Clark is the way matter behaves > when it is organized in a Johnclarkian way, and there is still a chunk of > matter organized in a Johnclarkian way in that duplicate room. > > John K Clark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
