Timeline for Looking for a short science fiction story about a computer defeated by a paradox?
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| Feb 1, 2023 at 12:00 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 1, 2021 at 4:46 | comment | added | Some Guy | If this is the correct answer to the question, please mark it as such so the question is shown as having been answered. | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 23:14 | comment | added | Lorendiac | I remember reading this story in some anthology in which the editor had added a comment after the story ended. He pointed out that by the 1980s, it was quite common for people to have a computer accidentally get stuck in an endless loop -- but it was also easy to fix. If necessary, you simply rebooted the computer to start all over from scratch. | |
| Jul 25, 2016 at 23:49 | history | edited | user14111 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2015 at 10:44 | comment | added | DavidS | @PaulDraper Computers aren't good at "evidently". But yeah, it really should be "You must reject the statement I am now making to you, because it is incorrect". | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 1:50 | comment | added | Paul Draper | Why didn't the machine solve the "paradox"? Evidently, Cary makes correct statements and incorrect statements. This statement is one of the incorrect ones. | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 1:07 | comment | added | user16696 | I don't know who's the bigger smuck, the guy that told it the paradox, or the programmers involved with its creation | |
| Jul 8, 2015 at 22:40 | history | answered | user14111 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |