Universal Love, Said the Cactus Person(slatestarcodex.com)

12 pointsby ChilledTonicw zeszłym roku1 comments

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-the-cactus-person/

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karmakazew zeszłym roku

How would this have worked? If the answer was given immediately how would I validate it, even if I knew the answer in advance. I couldn't exactly remember the factors but rather some properties of them (e.g. number of digits, starting digits, ending digits).

A hallucination could just pick an arbitrary number with those same properties that I know. Maybe I could take the product of the least significant digits and see if the match or not (on the off chance the hallucination was imprecise)?