[extropy-chat] HISTORY: Solved & Unsolved Riddles

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

 > Why is there something instead of nothing?

"I don't know" is an acceptable answer here.

I can add things like... "but I strongly suspect it's a wrong question, 
because I run into paradoxes when I try to analyze it" or "Are you sure 
there *is* something instead of nothing?" or "Maybe if I fully answer 'Why 
do people think there is something instead of nothing?' the question will 
go away."

Nonetheless, "I don't know" is an acceptable answer, and it remains my 
answer for the moment.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence