still not 100% sure how i feel about metaphysics of mathematics tbh
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thoughts on the computable reals?
have you read Tegmark's book? he's like a weird hyper platonist
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i was intrigued by the thing mentioned a while back about finitists-on-steroids who disbelieve in immensely large integers
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yeah... I'm like 60% convinced there's only a finite number of numbers and everything else is just abstraction to make computation easier
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i mean have you ever checked that 10^(10^10) *really* exists?????
I've never seen it in the same place as 11^(11^11) 🤨
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