Nisan comments on Formulas of arithmetic that behave like decision agents - Less Wrong
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Briefly,
is a variable, while
is a numeral — i.e., the string
where
occurs x times. I just learned that the standard notation is not
but
.
Less briefly: As I say in this comment, when I write
, what I really ought to write is
, where
interprets z as the Gödel number of a string of symbols and replaces every occurrence of the first free variable with the string 1+...+1, where 1 occurs x times.