Rather than pretend to have read Gödel, Escher, Bach, you can 80/20 the hard stuff by reading "I Am A Strange Loop."https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/i-am-a-strange-loop-by-douglas-hofstadter-910470.html …
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It took me 11 months to get through the book :D It was 15-20 years ago, and probably about time I re-read it. The chapter walking you through Gödel's proof had me stuck for a long time, but when I finally understood it it was worth it.
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No one understands A.I. The ones that do are lying.
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Gödel was one of the smartest people in the 20th century, and yet few have even heard of him and even fewer recognize his genius. Einstein knew Gödel was the smarter of the two. That’s how intelligent Gödel was.
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Ha! Bought it years ago. Got through chapter 1.
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It's all about recursion, brah. Zeno and the turtle can tell you all about it.
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To be fair it’s a huge book, and we’ve all been guilty of this at some point, but curious what causes you to bring this up
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Goedel's theorem states that any sufficiently powerful math system must have at it's basis unprovable axioms. Example: "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line" cannot be proved. It is not true!! (except in Euclidian geometry).
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oh shit i gotta read them then
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If you're serious, it's a book by Hofstadter. Also author of "I am a Strange Loop", generally amazing author imo.
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thank you
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Whos AL?
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“If a person has not read about a subject, they can’t possibly know anything about it.”-Cernovich, 2019
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