cannibals

Building a startup is slightly harsher than an island full of cannibals.

Wikipedia [1] describes the cannibals and missionaries problem differently than you do.

So when cows eat dead cow brains, they get serious neurological diseases, just like human cannibals are known to.

The correct solution requires that you get out of the boat and put two cannibals on it.

In situations where negligence of the cannibals is seen to have contributed to the circumstances that lead to the necessity of cannibalism, we are a bit less forgiving.

There are three missionaries and three cannibals that you must get across a river.

So, he eates cannibals for breakfast [until they are all gone and he's king!]?

The cannibals on either bank must never outnumber the missionaries on that bank.

In the past your consent wasn't required to be made a moderator of a subreddit; that's probably how u/spez became a moderator of r/cannibals.

So Y Combinator is slightly harsher than an island full of cannibals?

I recently implemented depth-first iterative deepening in an Artificial Intelligence class project to solve the classic missionaries and cannibals problem [0].

I wonder if we could ever create a culture that doesn't oppress anyone (with the obvious exception of murderers, rapists, cannibals, etc).

He once described the "missionary and cannibals problem" in class.

Well paul graham did say "You could parachute [Sam] into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king."

I've used an arguably "puzzle" question that was presented to me in an interview with some success -- the missionaries and cannibals problem.

I have always enjoyed that essay, it reminds me of something my Dad once said to me, "Cannibal's don't realize they are cannibals." It wasn't strictly true of course but it tried to capture the essence that if you've grown up in a society where X is the norm, you don't know what living in a society where X is not the norm is like or can be like.

Cannibals ate your parents, but hey, don't we all get a little hungry now and then?

For example, his subreddit r/Cannibals...