Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Second-Order Logic: The Controversy - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 January 2013 07:51PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 January 2013 12:52:07PM 17 points [-]

How long do you expect to stay an ultrafinitist?

Comment author: Academian 05 January 2013 07:48:15PM *  8 points [-]

Until I'm destroyed, of course!

... but since Qiaochu asked that we take ultrafinitism seriously, I'll give a serious answer: something else will probably replace ultrafinitism as my preferred (maximum a posteriori) view of math and the world within 20 years or so. That is, I expect to determine that the question of whether ultrafinitism is true is not quite the right question to be asking, and have a better question by then, with a different best guess at the answer... just because similar changes of perspective have happened to me several times already in my life.