Death of a Pig (1948)

Re:Death of a Pig (1948) by ycombinete on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @01:05AM (#14794350)

Just to add to this point, with something that Yuval Noah Harari said in an interview with Sam Harris:

  "If tensions, conflicts and irresolvable dilemmas are the
  spice of every culture, a human... must hold contradictory
  beliefs and be riven by incompatible values. Cognitive 
  dissonance is often considered a failure of the human
  psyche. In fact, it is a vital asset. Had people been unable
  to hold contradictory beliefs and values, it would probably
  have been impossible to establish and maintain any human
  culture."

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Re:Death of a Pig (1948) by smallnamespace on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @02:44AM (#14794681)

Godel's Incompleteness Theorem proves that at least in math, there's a tradeoff between power and completeness / consistency, in that formal systems than can encode arithmetic can prove more things, but they are necessarily either inconsistent or incomplete.

Would make a lot of sense if this tradeoff were also present in other contexts.

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