Please tell us a tree story Spike was Re: [extropy-chat] ping -please ignore

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

spike wrote:
> 
> Glad you should ask Brett.
> 
> Yes I shall see something more wonderous than a tree: two
> trees that have fallen in opposite directions.  Suppose
> one is walking in an old growth forest and sees an uprooted
> tree.  Surely the wind has taken it down.  But why two
> in opposite directions?  I had an idea, which will need
> to wait until this evening.

Before the students entered the classroom, the teacher turned the plate 
around.

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