I’m unpleasantly surprised about lesswrong. I figured it out myself on my second reading, maybe even on my first reading at the end of the book. Although I didn’t really notice on my first reading that I had to solve riddles at all, and I was just caught up in reading to stop thinking for even a second (which I now regret very much, and I hope no one makes the same mistake), so it was just an obvious fact on the edge of consciousness in the course of reading.
Not to mention that this is the most vague description in reality. From this, only the result can be deduced, not the path. And at the end it looks a little inconsistent, so I’m not even sure that the author originally planned it this way, and did not adjust it.
I don’t know about others, but I’m EXTREMELY uncomfortable reading the cipher (does anyone know a phone solution?), so I just wrote it without mentioning specific spoiler facts.
HPMOR is full of riddles, but I don’t think this is one of them. My interpretation is that this is just a way for the author to “prove” that he had already thought enough ahead to be able to write this.
I usually use rot13.com, which works fine even on a phone browser, but a quick search shows a number of results for rot13 translator apps.
I’m unpleasantly surprised about lesswrong. I figured it out myself on my second reading, maybe even on my first reading at the end of the book. Although I didn’t really notice on my first reading that I had to solve riddles at all, and I was just caught up in reading to stop thinking for even a second (which I now regret very much, and I hope no one makes the same mistake), so it was just an obvious fact on the edge of consciousness in the course of reading. Not to mention that this is the most vague description in reality. From this, only the result can be deduced, not the path. And at the end it looks a little inconsistent, so I’m not even sure that the author originally planned it this way, and did not adjust it. I don’t know about others, but I’m EXTREMELY uncomfortable reading the cipher (does anyone know a phone solution?), so I just wrote it without mentioning specific spoiler facts.
HPMOR is full of riddles, but I don’t think this is one of them. My interpretation is that this is just a way for the author to “prove” that he had already thought enough ahead to be able to write this.
I usually use rot13.com, which works fine even on a phone browser, but a quick search shows a number of results for rot13 translator apps.