Timeline of the far future

Re:Timeline of the far future by vecter on Monday May 07, 2012 @04:00AM (#3938124)

Are you alluding to Scott Aaronson's essay on Who Can Name the Bigger Number? [1]

[1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html

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Re:Timeline of the far future by platz on Monday May 07, 2012 @05:53PM (#3941137)

Yep!! The point is, if you say 'Take however many symbols it takes you to describe your large number', that's not well-defined and is fundamentally ambiguous due to the nature of language.

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Re:Timeline of the far future by dasil003 on Monday May 07, 2012 @09:01AM (#3938791)

Of course the whole large number pissing contest is extremely ageist.

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