Sniffnoy comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 8 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 07 September 2011 10:41:31PM 6 points [-]

And of course more generally, for those not familiar, you can never get rid of paradoxes by adding axioms!

Comment author: JoshuaZ 08 September 2011 04:52:44AM *  1 point [-]

I'm really tempted to be obnoxious and present an axiomatic system with a primitive called a "paradox" and then just point out what happens one adds the axiom that there are no paradoxes. This is likely a sign that I should go to bed so I can TA in the morning.

Comment author: lessdazed 08 September 2011 01:47:48AM 0 points [-]

How about by legislating? Has that been tried?