Nice! The original is this by @ESYudkowsky I think. I too have written a variant (not yet posted).https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/X3HpE8tMXz4m4w6Rz/the-simple-truth …
I think you’re missing the point here, which is natural since the quote is very much out of context. (It comes about half way through the book, after a lot of conceptual machinery has been built up already.)
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Could be. Maybe I’m too suspicious. Out of context, it does sound a lot like some extremely common mixups about proof theory.
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This comes after a hundred pages explaining all the ways logicism is wrong, so I think in context there will be little room for readers to misunderstand it as anything other than a satire, based on the obvious fact that there is no meaningful doubt about multiplication.
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