Comment by banapana on Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps · 2008-09-08T17:01:19.000Z · LW · GW

There was a Pebblesorter of lore who said that all of the heaps were merely transient, that none of them would last, all eventually destroyed by increasing entropy in the universe, and that therefore none of them held any true or real satisfaction. He said that the only path to enlightenment was to build no heaps at all for to do so could only increase suffering in the world. Then the other Pebblesorters killed him.