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The latter are all computable and encode only a finite amount of information. In fact that's exactly why you can name and identify specific ones. Can ...

The fact that the mathematical existence of noncomputable numbers follows from the rules of standard math, doesn't imply that any noncomputable proces...

Good post. I especially appreciate your pointing out that some irrationals like sqrt(2) or pi are computable and actually encode only a finite amount ...

But without further qualification, those models are in no way sets. And you refuse to provide such context. And if you mean something like NF, that's ...

You surely said no such thing, in particular or in general. Here is a quote of your entire post. I wonder if you can explain what you have in mind. Yo...

Perhaps you could humor me and provide "much of an argument." Such a set would violate regularity/foundation. Are you perhaps making reference to Quin...

I have been doing that. I can't add anything to what I've said other than that you should carefully examine the proof of Russell's paradox. And you sh...

A number of posters around here would beg to differ, but thanks for the kind words.

Attack of the killer robots? ???????????????????????????

I'm not the one who has a problem with it. Russell's paradox is a deep argument. Frege was a smart guy (he invented the universal and existential quan...

Your bump pushes it to the front page. You claim x is a set but it isn't. You have no proof that x is a set. Is x the collection of all sets that are ...

Darn. I am afraid I have to be picky again. A contradiction is not false. A contradiction is a pair of syntactic derivations, one of some statement P ...

I got in trouble here. A system is inconsistent if it proves both P and not-P for some statement P. But if a system is inconsistent, it has no model a...

You're turning the argument on its head to confuse yourself. If we can't define such a set without creating a contradiction, then there is no such set...

I'm no expert on this stuff but every tautology has a proof. Incompleteness involves propositions that aren't tautologies, whose truth value varies wi...

I wrote a reply and then, in the process of editing out my typos, I came to understand your argument. Rather than rewrite it I just let it all stand a...

That right there is the contradiction. x is a member of itself if and only if it's not a member of itself. Since the assumption that there is a set of...

If you did you wouldn't be alone here! At least you didn't call me a racist like some other guy did once. I was honestly just trying to provide a clas...

How dare you provide a reference that the OP might find interesting. Here's the Wikipedia link to your reference. That should really send him over the...

You're the one who started the bad arguments thread? I was just about to nominate you for it. Go read the C.P. Snow article and learn something. I gav...

Did you utterly fail to note the reference I gave you to C.P. Snow's famous essay?

Been done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures

That's an interesting point of view, can you explain please? You are saying that if someone with a vivid imagination creates their own stimulation in ...

Standard anesthesiology technique. You're sedated but aware, and afterward you don't remember the experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_a...

Today I learned! Thanks.

In that case I can just wait to read about it in the papers. You'll be more famous than Einman.

E = mc^2 is an equation of special relativity, a classical theory. If you had a quantum theory of special relativity you'd get the Nobel in physics wi...

I want to say something about all this (and your other two posts) but it seems too difficult to me to respond point by point and the more I mull it al...

From the rest of your post I gather that you either misunderstood a sensible video or else believed a nonsensical one. Can you please link the video s...

It's weird. Since posting my opinion of Harris a week ago, my Youtube feed is suddenly full of Sam Harris clips. Maybe it's a coincidence. A Harris cl...

"We're not worthy!" :-) You should get some self-awareness. When you know you're wrong, you get personal. Saw that before.

You are making my point. The Internet didn't abolish human nature. And cancel culture doesn't need the Internet. Chairman Mao's cultural revolution di...

Trump: No new wars. Obama: Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia Niger, probably a few others we don't even know about. Trump hasn't taken anyone's oil. Watch ...

I've pretty much said my piece on this. The OP said it was hard to think of a big man-made system that's not hierarchical. I offered the Internet not ...

Most definitely. Bolton was lusting for war and Trump wouldn't let him have it and fired him. Trump blusters about military strength and then avoids w...

Your post overlapped my edits, I'll try to respond and hope you're rereading the last part of my post. I better leave this for tomorrow. FWIW I came u...

Cool experiences. And now, I have to reframe my understanding of that history. Are you saying that in the end, hierarchies won again? That TCP/IP in e...

Right, same reason utopian communities always fail. In the end, lords and serfs is a law of nature. How depressing. I think you made your point. It's ...

I think your IBM/SNA background gave you a certain worldview. It's a different reality than the packet-switching approach of TCP/IP. Funny that it's i...

Ok. Then you must agree with my point that the software protocols are peer-to-peer and the opposite of hierarchical. And I concede your point that the...

Yes. TCP/IP is a pure software networking protocol. It's independent of any particular hardware implementation. As you may know, every single Internet...

That article uses the word hierarchical incorrectly and fails to back up its incorrect assertion; in fact, it perfectly well describes the peer-to-pee...

Isn't the global Internet a perfectly obvious counterexample? Of course the Domain Name System (DNS) is hierarchical, but the Internet would work fine...

You can never rationally argue a counterfactual. Absent Hitler, Stalin arguably takes over Europe and in the end 100 million die instead of the actual...

Just an impression I have. Nothing in particular that I remember, although I usually find something when I watch one of his videos.

I didn't read the rest, but I have a definite opinion that I wanted to toss out. Of all the so-called "public intellectuals" out there, Sam Harris is ...

If you ever want to exchange views I'd enjoy that. I know you're sincere. I think you're a victim of a terrible ideology that's sweeping the country. ...

I wasn't reading the entire thread and I'm afraid I don't recall the referent for this remark. I'm pretty sure I've said my piece here. One individual...

I'm disappointed that you prefer not to dialog at all with people you disagree with. A lot of that going around these days. All the best.

As with my remarks about Kamala Harris, my comments on Liz are political and not personal. Whatever you may think is the truth of the matter, as if su...