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Re:Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf] by carapace on Saturday August 17, 2019 @02:38PM (#20725525)
Da Vinci? Bucky Fuller?

Legend has it that when Gödel presented "On the Completeness of the Logical Calculus" von Neumann threw in the towel (on Hilbert's program) on the spot.

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Re:Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf] by michele_f on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @05:28AM (#20745074)
Thank you for your comment. I didn't know that anecdote.
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Re:Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf] by carapace on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:54PM (#20754441)
Cheers!

What I find fascinating is, he was the only person in the room to understand immediately. Even today, most people (and I mean mathematicians and programmers and others who might be expected to get it) still haven't internalized Gödel.

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