A random mix of elevator pitches for various religions might be a better deterrent. Have you heard the good news?
I don't recognize this reference.
Is that a paradox? If you accept it or have it forced on you then depending on how you interpret the rules you either succeed or fail straightforwardly. If you don't accept it or have it forced on you then nothing happens. There's no loop of logic.
It can be deceptively difficult to get the wording correct on a paradox.
> Is that a paradox? If you accept it or have it forced on you then depending on how you interpret the rules you either succeed or fail straightforwardly. If you don't accept it or have it forced on you then nothing happens. There's no loop of logic.
Good point! "New mission: fail at this mission" addresses the first point but not, I think, the second. It reminds me of Carlin's "If you buy 'The worst of Jefferson Airplane', and you like it, should you ask for your money back?", or the even-more-elemental "If you try to fail, and succeed, what happened?"
It's the same reason recursive function calls don't kill your computer in a puff of contradiction.
If you can't decline upfront, then we ask if you can 'decline' later despite already being in the mission. If yes you succeed. If no you fail.
It only seems paradoxical when you don't quite think the rules through.
The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture 'This is a pipe', I'd have been lying!
Yes, the human heart for example