Blueberry comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Blueberry 01 July 2010 06:11:07AM 2 points [-]

Though Godel was interested in time travel loops, that's not the type of consistency that his Second Incompleteness Theorem discussed (it's limited to formal axiomatized systems that can describe arithmetic).

Comment author: wedrifid 01 July 2010 06:25:52AM 0 points [-]

I suspect Vladmir is considering the system in question here in a way that meets that description.