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Taking pleasure in being wrong (with Buck Shlegeris)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Holding Problem and Math

You can phrase a certain large class of questions about math in terms of whether a program holds. And the answer to that question is just the same as the answer to the math question of whether there exists an even number that isn't the sum of two primes. So the goal about conjecture which you're just describing is sort of equivalent to that program halting. Yeah and there's a bunch of other math questions.

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