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81 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 July 2009 02:27AM

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 15 July 2009 05:58:52AM 2 points [-]

"All mathematical reasoning involving "infinities" involves self-evident contradictions, but human mathematicians have a blind spot with respect to them." -Eliezer Yudkowsky

I'm going to lose sleep over this one...Is there anything to this?

Comment author: komponisto 15 July 2009 07:19:01AM *  5 points [-]

Is there anything to this?

There needn't have been in order for this to be a reasonable example, but perhaps Eliezer is not-so-subtly hinting that he actually expects an AI to say this.

But it's really no different than "all reasoning by mathematicians about X is wrong" where X is any mathematical concept you please.