@wargfranklin @Meaningness There were a couple of claims I'd take issue with but it was quite good. not worth nitpicking.
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@Meaningness Me: Look, here is a mathematical proof that X is completely undoable in any possible universe. LW: ... ... but X -
@St_Rev @wargfranklin@Meaningness Some people want to gedankenexperiment for logic practice but don't want to admit it's for practice. -
@Alrenous @wargfranklin@Meaningness Some people take logical constructs on faith and think they're reasoning.
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@St_Rev @wargfranklin Oh, hey! Turns out I actually finished my page about this! http://meaningness.com/wrong-way-reduction … cc:@vgr -
@Meaningness@St_Rev @wargfranklin@vgr What about wrong-way reducing to a problem easier to hold in your head? -
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@Meaningness Are you implying that this is (almost) always a mistake? If so, I disagree -
@Magic_of_expect Simplification can be good, or bad, depending. It’s wrong-way if it renders the problem more difficult to solve.
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@Meaningness But you can get useful insight from a harder, simpler problem to bring back to the bigger problem -
@Magic_of_expect Sometimes!
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