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Maybe they're trying to trick us into thinking that they're trying to trick us so that they can trick us by trying to trick us into thinking we're being tricked
by antiterra 13y ago
Maybe they're trying to trick us into thinking that they're trying to trick us so that they can trick us by trying to trick us into thinking we're being tricked!
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- tptacek 13y agoShit.
- pasbesoin 13y agoBuffalo buffalo buffalo... Oh, never mind. ---- P.S. Ok, for the downvoters: I tend to engage in humor on HN in very limited amounts. (Yes, the way things "used to be", here.) I knew the risks in making my comment. But, the parent reminded me of the linguistic (and logical) tangle we can start entering in discussing conditionals upon conditionals. Which in turn reminded me of this other linguistic tangle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal... That's the context of my remark.
- stcredzero 13y agoReally, they've just tricked us into not having enough levels of recursion.
- Breakthrough 13y agoSounds like Daniel Suarez' novel Daemon. TL,DR: Programmer dies but his program manipulates the world after his death, then the US government spreads word that the program is a hoax, so later in the novel most people disbelieve that such a program can even exist (because the government "disproved" it!), hindering any chance that society would even believe that something like this existed, let alone was possible. I just wanted to throw it out there to illustrate the parallels of the plot in the novel with the current things happening right now...
- nostrademons 13y agoNever argue with a Sicilian when death is on the line!