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Thank you for the nice comments. I'm not sure I was really "crushing" anyone - more like light-hearted banter!
Strangely, I don't usually feel smart - rather the reverse, most of the time. There's so much I don't know and understand it's pretty scary.
As for Gödel, my own view is that he was very much smarter than most people. I would count myself very much in the formalist tradition, but unlike some of the older generation I don't think Gödel did very much harm to the formalist case. Rather, I take Gödel's work as describing aspects of a certain (very large) class of formal systems, and take a "utilitarian" view of mathematics as applied to the real world. I suppose I think he was a very smart guy whose work has been imperfectly interpreted by others.
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[–] TelescopiumHerscheli ago
/u/Antiracist10 : are you by any chance related to /u/antiracist3 ?
[–] antiracist3 ago
https://voat.co/v/whatever/comments/1135970/5639154
Antiracist10 links to Antiracist3 there, before you asked your question.
That link is in the chain that I linked to you here, in the last link of the post: https://voat.co/v/whatever/comments/1133371/5639614
It's to where you and oedipusaurus_rex were talking.
You had enough information to connect Antiracist3 and Antiracist10 before you asked.
[–] TelescopiumHerscheli ago
I did, but felt it was polite to let you know that I'd made the link. It's nice to meet you. And now it's late, so I'm going to bed. Goodnight!
[–] antiracist3 ago
Yes.
[–] antiracist3 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago (edited ago)
Ohhhh!!! You're the guy who was crushing oedipusaurus_rex about consistency!
Yeah, you're smart. I can tell.
oedipusaurus_rex, nadrewod, and The_Only_Other are not.
Lol, lots of mentions of Godel. Consistency to oedipusaurus_rex. Platonism to The_Only_Other. And ontological arguments to Crensch.
Voat is filled with lots of idiots. They're all smarter than Godel though. http://archive.is/RQgAH
[–] TelescopiumHerscheli ago
Thank you for the nice comments. I'm not sure I was really "crushing" anyone - more like light-hearted banter!
Strangely, I don't usually feel smart - rather the reverse, most of the time. There's so much I don't know and understand it's pretty scary.
As for Gödel, my own view is that he was very much smarter than most people. I would count myself very much in the formalist tradition, but unlike some of the older generation I don't think Gödel did very much harm to the formalist case. Rather, I take Gödel's work as describing aspects of a certain (very large) class of formal systems, and take a "utilitarian" view of mathematics as applied to the real world. I suppose I think he was a very smart guy whose work has been imperfectly interpreted by others.