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Jones, J.P. Some undecidable determined games. Int J Game Theory 11, 63–70 (1982). doi.org/10.1007/BF0176… Bovykin, Andrey. (2019). Metamathematical subtleties of winning in Diophantine games. researchgate.net/publication/33…

ereliuer_eteer's tweet image. Jones, J.P. Some undecidable determined games. Int J Game Theory 11, 63–70 (1982). doi.org/10.1007/BF0176…

Bovykin, Andrey. (2019). Metamathematical subtleties of winning in Diophantine games.
researchgate.net/publication/33…

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Hard disagree. Euclidean geometry is a perfectly good representation of how certain aspects of the world work at human scales. It's as real as architecture or mechanical engineering, many products of which are literally instances of Euclidean geometry *made real*.


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our identity, this custom character that gets so much attention in our daily lives--especially now that we are compelled to externalize every novel thought (hi)--is our most obvious roadblock and we are just stacking those bricks higher and higher. identity is wasted cycles


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No, it's all territory. Maps are just small pieces of territory that happen to be approximately isomorphic to larger pieces.


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lol yes. I've had plenty of experiences that subjectively felt like moments of mathematical discovery, but my intellectual suspicion is along the lines implied in your tweet: Mathematics is the product of empirical experience radically extended by human thought and language.


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The latter implies the former. Minds have no existence outside of their physical realization in brains (or other hardware).


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A colleague said to me once you need a PhD to do research in mathematics. I'm not so sure. A piece of paper doesn't suddenly make you a mathematician. You get there through curiosity, passion, and by having fun.


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To be fair, the “P” is “processing”, not understanding


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It's shocking how little today's NLP research has to do with language.


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If the people tearing down statues couldn’t find major countries on a map, would that decrease your confidence in the righteous of their cause?


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The answer is yes. However, explaining the mechanism is beyond the scope of a twitter thread. I've kind of lost where I was going with this which is a good indicator I should stop here.


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Second person plural is groupthink concentrate. Making it folksy just makes it more sinister. And most y’all already know this.


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It's shocking how many grad students, even at top universities, think AI started with Hinton et al. Read this book: amazon.com/Master-Algorit…


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Yet. At least. It is the very incompleteness of our theories, that is the only real hope for going beyond Einstein’s limits. Thank god for that hope. Let’s not squander it with complacency and defeatism. 🙏


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We won’t find intelligence at the bottom of gradient descent.


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I would strongly recommend Rota’s “Indiscrete Thoughts” which contain even more of these beautiful musings.


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