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Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy

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Re: Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy

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Post by gosub »

commieneko wrote: post #29
glimcat wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Death by ironic circumstances. Time of death chosen from within the allowed range such that hazards to bystanders are minimized, then such that irony is maximized, then randomly." Solving for maxima in the Law of Universal Perversity should do it.

Might as well wish for a Deathnote that was Touring Complete. The story emphasises that Deathnotes are fairly literal, and that if you try to push it you'll just get a heart attack death.

"Death by starvation while yelling repeatedly the solution to the P=NP problem or if a solution is possible"

Re: Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy

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Post by archangel_one »

buu700 wrote: post #34
archangel_one wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I recall, part of the rules of the Death Note was that the user has to picture the face of the victim as they write the name, so they have to have a name and a face to kill. I assume a printer doesn't manage to do that, although I do suspect at times that some printers are fairly malevolent.

".. would accept POST requests of victims' names/ pictures ... at that time pull up an image of them on X and print their name on one page of the death note ..." (emphasis added) Like I said, this depends on a bit of a loose definition of "mind", so it might not have worked at all. Here is the exact wording of the rule in question: "This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person’s face in their mind…

I agree that there's not any way to know for sure. I guess I saw the "mind" thing a different way; that it has to be a sentient being thinking about it, but obviously we can't know without one to test on :)

Re: Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy

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Post by Natsu »

Shaanie wrote: post #38
Natsu wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might be possible for him to hear about the broadcast by other means had he not been in the first region where it was broadcast. But it never really turned out to matter, as you say. L was able to notice that weird case where the evil guy who had taken school children hostage died of a mysteriously timed heart attack and piece a lot of things together. Actually, though, that broadcast was probably one of the most…

It would be extremely hard (probably impossible) to hide the fact that you need a criminals name and face to kill them. At most he could've gained a bit of time by being more careful, and at that point he didn't believe the death note would work anyway.

Maybe if you assume that psychic killings are possible from the outset. While people might be able to figure out that something is going on, proving that someone is doing the killings remotely via a notebook is quite a leap and only the crazy arrangement L tried made proving that possible.

Re: Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy

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Post by commieneko »

gosub wrote: post #41
commieneko wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Might as well wish for a Deathnote that was Touring Complete. The story emphasises that Deathnotes are fairly literal, and that if you try to push it you'll just get a heart attack death.

"Death by starvation while yelling repeatedly the solution to the P=NP problem or if a solution is possible"

You just cause an exception in the Deathnote implementation code and crashed the universe...
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