Kindly comments on How to cheat Löb's Theorem: my second try - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kindly 23 August 2012 12:33:29PM 2 points [-]

Oh, I see. So we can conclude, when we replace K by 15, that "If 1=0 is provable in PPT.2, then 1=0." However, since we're not actually working in PPT.2 anymore -- we've replaced K by 15, which gave us a different proof system -- then we don't get an inconsistency.

Comment author: Benja 23 August 2012 12:47:54PM 1 point [-]

Exactly!