[extropy-chat] HISTORY: Solved & Unsolved Riddles

[Samantha Atkins]

On Saturday 08 November 2003 06:02, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Samantha Atkins wrote:
> >>>9) Why is there something rather than nothing?
> >
> > Because you are here to ask.
>
> If I ask "Why are my pants on fire?" it probably means that my pants are
> on fire, since, after all, if my pants were not on fire I would not be
> asking the question.  But this does not answer the question of *why* my
> pants are on fire.


It is a trite more subtle than that.