[extropy-chat] HISTORY: Solved & Unsolved Riddles

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

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.

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