Reposting this really intriguing article by John Baez over at Azimuth. He writes:
There were many interesting talks at the Interdisciplinary Climate Change Workshop last week—too many for me to describe them all in detail. But I really must describe the talks by Radoslav Dimitrov. They were full of important things I didn’t know. Some are quite promising.
Radoslav S. Dimitrov
is a professor at the Department of Political Science at the University
of Western Ontario. What’s interesting is that he’s also been a
delegate for the European Union at the UN climate change negotiations
since 1990! His work documents the history of climate negotiations from
behind closed doors.
Read the full article here.
The Probability of Undecidability
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There’s a lot we don’t know. There’s a lot we can’t know. But can we at
least know how much we can’t know? What fraction of mathematical statements
are und...
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