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Taking pleasure in being wrong (with Buck Shlegeris)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Complexity of Simple Questions in Math
I think one thing that I'm interested in is trying to build up decision procedures. So by decision procedure I mean some way of taking some class of question and then kind of formally specifying the set of questions that I claim I'm going to know how to answer. How do you think about what a simple question is? In math there are some questions that seem simple that we just know because math teachers have tried to prove them are like ridiculously complicated secretly. It might make sense to aspire to there being no question about basic mechanics that involves only the following four concepts that I will ever be confused by. For instance I think that objects moving around in a vacuum exerting forces on each other
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