wedrifid comments on LW's first job ad - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 September 2010 10:04AM

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Comment author: NihilCredo 16 September 2010 07:01:31PM 2 points [-]

No, not at all. The epistemic size of the debate about Tychonoff's theorem is many orders of magnitude smaller than the one about counterfactual mugging or torturing one vs. annoying many. Hence, while I can confidently attribute my Calculus 2 textbook's massive handwaving on the former to the author being far smarter than me (and possibly lazy), I'm a lot less inclined to be equally charitable towards Eliezer.

Comment author: wedrifid 16 September 2010 07:08:55PM 1 point [-]

I was alluding to the kind of jests that are often made at the expense of mathematicians.

In mathematics, there are only two kinds of proofs: Trivial ones, and undiscovered ones.