fractalman comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - Less Wrong

147 Post author: Yvain 13 September 2010 09:36PM

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Comment author: fractalman 07 June 2013 10:12:02AM -2 points [-]

|so no one tries to signal intelligence by saying that 1+1 equals 3

oh, you are so asking for it, no matter how old this topic is...

There IS a sense in which 1+1=3. It is not particularly deep, or philosiphical, or even particulalry useful mathematically, except possibly to demonstrate a simple result of playing around with unusual axioms.

See, when one man and one woman....

snickers