alt Hacker News> Now I guess you can pick up the goal post and move it.
The central problem with math is that you have an infinite amount of space within which to move these goalposts.
How many variants on this trial before we find a mistake?
What is an acceptable error rate?
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jimhefferon • 10/11/2024
At this moment, the error rate seems to be that of a beginning graduate student. Or at least, that's what Terry Tao thinks. That's pretty good.
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> How many variants on this trial before we find a mistake?
How many variants would it take for a human to make a mistake? It's certainly not "infinity", so is this an indication that humans don't reason?