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And the child asked: • Q: Where did this rock come from? • A: I chipped it off the big boulder, at the center of the village. …

x Semantic Stopsigns — LessWrong Mysterious Answers Paradoxes Semantic Stopsign Confirmation Bias Frontpage 185 Semantic Stopsigns by Eliezer Yudkowsky 24th Aug 2007 3 min read 111 185 And the child asked: Q: Where did this rock come from? A: I chipped it off the big boulder, at the center of the village. Q: Where did the boulder come from? A: It probably rolled off the huge mountain that towers over our village. Q: Where did the mountain come from? A: The same place as all stone: it is the bones of Ymir, the primordial giant. Q: Where did the primordial giant, Ymir, come from? A: From the gre

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