Okay. What about "absolute" systems that cast nonabsolute prescriptive recipes as shadows, like "try counting digits and adding to estimate the product to within a couple of orders of magnitude"?
(I’m not sure if this tweet is the completion of a train of thought, or if you are still going?) I don’t follow (thus far). I’ve said that math is a domain of absolute truth. It’s a thing we do have, not an ideal we approximate.
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Only if you have a computer and even then you can't calculate the 100th Busy Beaver number or the leading digit of Graham's Number. It's easy to state slightly harder math questions that leave us with only guessing heuristics and no way to just Apply The Defintion of A Number.
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Right. But isn’t your point that even if we can’t implement it, decision theory is Correct? I’m agreeing that it is Correct in the sense that it’s math and math is absolutely true (or not at all).
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