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|    Re: Busy Beaver and Theory Consistency -    |
|    02 Dec 25 17:32:51    |
      XPost: alt.philosophy, comp.theory       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 12/2/2025 5:13 PM, dart200 wrote:       > On 12/2/25 3:05 PM, olcott wrote:       >> On 12/2/2025 4:44 PM, dart200 wrote:       >>> bruh it's get even weirder when the likes of scott aaronson try to       >>> construct weird ass proofs to demonstrate when BB exactly becomes "to       >>> complex" and exceeds the bounds of "decidability" ...       >>>       >>> which is just fucking absurd tbh       >>>       >>       >> Busy beaver quickly consumes more memory than atoms       >> in the universe.       >       > *known/observable* universe, not that fundamental math is concerned with       > such considerations       >              Einstein proposed the possibility of a finite       yet unbounded universe. That would entail a       finite number of total atoms in the universe       and a bunch of empty space.              I read his paper before I finished high school.       The Busy Beaver cannot possibly make any       difference and should be discarded on that basis.              On the other hand the nature of truth itself       could make a difference whether or not life       on Earth continues to survive.              --       Copyright 2025 Olcott              My 28 year goal has been to make       "true on the basis of meaning" computable.              This required establishing a new foundation       for correct reasoning.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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