A week or two ago I put up a post called Manifesto. The idea was to ask myself what I - or what Points of Inflection - should be standing for in these serious days. It looks as though my own days are short - but if they were long, if I were writing a manifesto for some kind of gathering or movement, what would I emphasize as centrally important? And in such a document I'd want to bring together both the hard-headed mathematical analysis that I've tried to do, and also the spiritual or even "prophetic" critique which tries to understand the 'principalities and powers' that are in action behind the upheavals of recent times and which we can expect in the future. So, in the first Manifesto post, I revisited the idea that materialism bears responsibility for our woes, and found it misguided: I felt our problem was that we did not revere materiality enough, not that we revered it too much.
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...
3 days ago