“Wrong-way reductions” are a fallacy only smart people fall into: turning a messy tractable problem into a tidy impossible one.
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Replying to @Meaningness
A real reduction turns a hard problem into an easy one. A wrong-way reduction is to an even hard one, with solution taken on faith.
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Replying to @Meaningness
Example of wrong-way reduction: “encode all knowledge as logical axioms, then automated theorem-prover would give answer to all problems!”
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@Meaningness count the legs and then divide by four1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing eh? (jet lagged, sorry, slow on uptake here?)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness that's how you count all those cows when they're all moving in a herd2 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing just told this to @awbery and now we are both laughing uncontrollably
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