This blog post is fallacious.
Suppose 93179747 were prime, and somehow managed to encode the logical proposition, "statement 93179747 is false." Imagine a flowchart which uses a putative solution to the halting problem to loop indefinitely on presentation of any program the logic of which would cause *it* to terminate naturally, and within a predictable interval -- and conversely. Imagine all the lonely people, living lives of peace. Or lies of Epimenides. Imagine this paragraph could be construed to have semantic content, and not to be ill-formed.
The first statement of this entry post is semantically ill-formed. Or not.
This statement is not the last, but it should be.
The infinite monkey theorem and the anthropic principle
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I was originally going to write this as an addendum to my not-so-recent
post, The problem with physics, but it became obvious that it deserved a
post of...
1 week ago
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