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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
related to this, i've observed a funny pattern with respect to godel's incompleteness theorem specifically that the better someone understands the technical details behind it, the less philosophical or metaphysical significance they assign it
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Matt "🇺🇦" Olson
@arachnocapital2
it me over the course of reading GEB and working through Negel and Newman's "Goedel's Proof" I went from a sense of cosmic wonder to "wow, that's a great fucking trick, nice work"
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
i had the opposite GEB experience, started out with 'wow cool trick' and ended with 'this suspiciously maps onto some cosmic wonder'
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