John_Maxwell_IV comments on Formalization is a rationality technique - Less Wrong

5 Post author: Johnicholas 06 March 2009 08:22PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 07 March 2009 04:55:26AM 1 point [-]

Really? Maybe I'm just naive. Could you give me an example of an argument and its formalization?

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 09 March 2009 07:01:03PM 2 points [-]

Good examples of this include the efforts of posters on the newsgroup sci.math to make sense of arguments by math cranks who believe that they've proved the denumerability of the reals or what have you.