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Kranarlast Wednesday at 10:01 PM1 replyview on HN

I quoted the specific statement that I refuted.


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IsTomlast Wednesday at 10:25 PM

Only if your goalpost of what "mathematics" is endlessly shifting. To prove values of BB(50000) you're probably going to need some pretty wacky axioms in your system. With BB(any large number) that's just going to be unfeasible to justify that the system isn't tailored to prove that fact, just short of adding axiom of "BB(x) = y".