Re: [s-d] Re: [s-b] Squid, take 2

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 21, 2004, at 6.48 PM, Jeremy Cook wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 06:26:02PM -0500, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> > On Nov 21, 2004, at 6.13 PM, Jeremy Cook wrote:
> > > Aaargh... Black Holes don't destroy themselves. Doesn't your doctrine
> > > of
> > > strict interpretation even allow you to interpret "any piece on the
> > > same
> > > square as a Black Hole" to exclude the Black Hole itself?
> >
> > In order for that to exclude the Black Hole, you'd have to convince me
> > that either the Black Hole isn't a piece, or it isn't on the same
> > square as a Black Hole...
>
> In English, "any" is often used to mean "any other", when it's clear
> that a strict interpretation of "any" isn't what's intended. For
> instance, "anything would be better than your interpretation" is
> understood not as a contradiction, but as saying "anything else...".

It's not at all clear to me that "any" in this case is intended to mean 
"any other". Why not have a piece that destroys itself, as long it does 
something useful too.

I actually like this interpretation better. Now they're more like air 
strikes than vacuum cleaners.

With regards to the proposed new Black Holes, note that this will 
require tracking information outside of the main ASCII board. You might 
want to include a modification that makes all pieces take two 
characters instead of just one; then a Black hole can be represented as 
X0, X1, etc. depending on how many pieces it's consumed.

--
Wonko

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm 
not sure about the former.
      -Albert Einstein

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