Academian comments on The Last Number - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 10 April 2010 12:09PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 10 April 2010 04:50:35PM 0 points [-]

Look up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-verifying_theories

"for instance there are self-verifying systems capable of proving the consistency of Peano arithmetic."

Comment author: Academian 10 April 2010 05:16:21PM 0 points [-]

Huh, did not know! Unfortunately they don't imply the results of Peano arithmetic, but that would be asking for too much, heheh.