ChristianKl comments on Rationality Quotes March 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 03 March 2012 06:22:04PM 0 points [-]

The frequentist vs. baysian debate is a debate of computing mathematical paradigms. True mathematicians however shun statistics. They don't like the statistical pradigm ;)

Gödel's discovery ended a certain mathmatical pradigm of wanting to construct a complete mathematics from the ground up.

I could imagine a future paradigm shift way from the ideal of mathmatical proofs to more experimental math. Neural nets or quantum computers can give you answer to mathematical question that you ask that might be better than the answer s that axiom and proof based math provides.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 04 March 2012 12:46:16AM 1 point [-]

Gödel's discovery ended a certain mathmatical pradigm of wanting to construct a complete mathematics from the ground up.

Except, in practice mathematics still works this way.