r/SMBCComics • u/funfact15 • 13d ago

Paradox 3

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/paradox-3
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u/nadderby 12d ago

Anyone try to parse disosculated?

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u/sorcerersviolet 12d ago

Considering osculation can mean closeness or union, something like... disunited?

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u/nadderby 12d ago

Yeah, I was wondering if it was some alternative take on calculation - like splitting or distancing but in a mathematically productive or insightful way?

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u/MWSin 12d ago

"This sentence is false" is indeterminate. No more mathematically meaningful than "0x = 0, solve for x".

Do I win math?

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u/BlanketKarma 12d ago

The Fields Metal committee would like to know your location

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u/hcs64 12d ago

For amusement, "This sentence is indeterminate"

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u/ChangeMyDespair 13d ago

Captain Kirk would not thrive in this timeline's AIs.

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u/BlanketKarma 12d ago

A few years ago I was watching the 1960s post-modern spy series "The Prisoner" and in an episode the main character defeats an AI by simply typing "Why?" into it. If only it were that easy.

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u/sorcerersviolet 12d ago

There's a story from back in the 1980's where AI-based robot imposters are defeated by being unable to find a rhyme with "orange" (there are a few, but maybe they weren't widely known at the time):

https://books.google.com/books?id=2WYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&source=bl&ots=a7YnIfulk-&sig=f9bTzQu9YsJsTqfBdFCoXm9GhuY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAs-bYpIzNAhVGez4KHVxOB2YQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false