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Re:Foundational Anxieties, Modern Mathematics, and the Polit... by jvanderbot on Thursday June 15, 2023 @06:44PM (#36347790)
I liked the history lesson, but I think the analogy to modern anxieties about AI was a bit stretched. It's the first I've heard that "analysis" was meant to be akin to an intelligent mind's methods. This read more like a modern re-imagining of a time when mathematics was in upheaval with new methods.
Re:Foundational Anxieties, Modern Mathematics, and the Polit... by constantcrying on Friday June 16, 2023 @01:16AM (#36351683)
I do not think it is much of a reach, Leibniz by that point had already conxeptualized the computer and believed that all questions could be answered by it.