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@vriska @pernia maths is not universally true. it is a social system for synchronising models across brains, and the synchronisation fails sometimes and one year you get fields-medal-winner-because-i-made-the-cool-proof and then next you get people saying they've disproven his proof
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@Moon @pernia @vriska challenger thinks it's a mistake, and medalist thinks it's not a mistake, and then they try to convince one anotheras long as time and space are a thing and instant-infinity hacks aren't (gödel-turing) maths is just "what a particular brain or other computer does"
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@shmibs @vriska @pernia isn't that more of a mistake than a bias
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@Moon @pernia @vriska because platonism is wrong and maths is a physical object in embedded in the universe like anything else (whatever that means
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@shmibs @pernia @vriska is this because all decisions are by consensus