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In Chinese, there is a term called 矛盾. Individually, the word 矛 means spear and the word 盾 means shield. The story goes - once upon a time there was a merchant
by meric 14y ago
In Chinese, there is a term called 矛盾. Individually, the word 矛 means spear and the word 盾 means shield. The story goes - once upon a time there was a merchant selling spears and shield. "This spear can pierce through any shield!" he says, "This shield can block any spear!" he says. An astute member of the audience asks "What happens if you hit your shield with your spear?". 矛盾 is the term for "contradiction".
So let me ask now, what happens if you get the robot hand to play with another robot hand?
- chaosfox 14y agothey will draw with rock every time, because both will wait each other to change their hands. they could draw with paper too, that will depend on how the robot was programmed.
- Alterlife 14y agoNopes, I think they'll go into a loop... First the robots both spot the other one appearing to go with rock and make a last millisecond change to paper. Then they both notice the other one making the change to paper, so they both go scissors... then they both go with rock again. Loop!
- druiid 14y agoWhile that would be hilarious to watch, I'm assuming that there is some sort of basic 'while loop' protection that they programmed in!
- eswangren 14y agoEh, I don't know... Have you ever seen some of the code that comes out of academia? Interesting stuff, not usually very robust.
- isalmon 14y agoI think they are allowed to make their choices just once, so they will both see rock and make their change to paper. After that the loop will stop.
- nandemo 14y agoInteresting. I speak Japanese and know the word 矛盾, but I had never paid attention to the meaning of its constituent kanjis (I don't think I've ever studied those characters separately).