On Jun 21, 2015 12:35 AM, "Russell Standish" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >
Sounds like there will be a line to use the duplicator ;-) Terren > On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 12:05:07PM -0400, John Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 Terren Suydam <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > 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 [email protected] > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
