Ship of Theseus vs. Missile of Stark. If you take missile parts and build hero-suit, did you build a missile? <-- just spent 1 hr on this 😞
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By missile or ship we refer to the information content (the bits used to describe it) ?
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Huh? Parts don't have a property of for-something-ness. It's like being squeamish about drinking water from filtered/recycled sewage.
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. You'd be surprised how many over-socialized people don't get that. It's called functional fixedness. tempobook.com/2011/05/12/fun
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alternates: use melted weapons to make art = ? Melted jewelry to make weapons = ? Art/toys in shape of weapons = ? If used by robbers?
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you can even do things that don't increase the entropy of the thing :)
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