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cousin_it comments on Consistent extrapolated beliefs about math? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: cousin_it 04 September 2014 10:25:12PM *  2 points [-]

Yeah. Judging from the comments, it looks like most people misunderstood the point, though the point is right there in the title :-( I think the result of extrapolation should be an algorithm that spits out all true statements, or an algorithm that checks proofs. These are equivalent, and known as "effectively generated" or "recursively axiomatizable" theories. It can't be an algorithm that answers provable/disprovable/independent, because that's impossible even for PA, and I'd like to think that I believe in more than just PA.