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Some of the juiciest discussions on this forum recently are the perma-flagged posts with active comments and high upvotes. The moderation bias (by supposed "crowd" or not) is obvious, there…

> Goedel’s extended book review wherein he proves that Principia cannot do what it sets out to do Perhaps it's this one: On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Rel…

Foreword to Nagel & Newman's _Gödel’s Proof_ - Douglas R. Hofstadter https://archive.org/download/douglas-r.-hofstadter-collected... (PDF)…

"..simpler and smaller.."

> Is C even worth saving C doesn't need saving, it will continue to survive on its own and even flourish in niches for decades to come. So will "Java"Script. Worse is Better, respect…

And nobody learned a thing.

The best kind of propaganda is when people believe they're "thinking on their own" while repeating some convenient lie to keep the grift going. If you think that doesn't apply to y…

> A growing number of theorists explore the possibility that space is not continuous, but rather discrete at the smallest scales. > This discreteness hypothesis implies that given two different …

"The sooner you can be broken out of your denial about all this the better, and we can start actually taking you seriously."

Sad to see formerly talented software developers become mediocre and bland, losing their unique flavor and personality. Maybe there's still some insight or idea that's their own creation, bu…

There have been experiments in "digital primordial soup", where primitive programs are cultivated under conditions with evolutionary pressure. Computational Substrates: How Well-formed, Self…

Intelligent tulip on the phone: "Put down 10K tokens on OpenHumans, Inc! It's Monkey Mania out there."

That's an unintelligent thing to say about tulips.

> may never be useful at all Nobody is qualified to judge the usefulness of mathematical, scientific, artistic, or any other kind of research that people choose to dedicate their time doing. And th…