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adamzwasserman11/04/20252 repliesview on HN

The whole "math is a universal" language is particularly laughable to me considering it is a formal system and the universe is observably irregular.

As I am wont to say: regularity is only ever achieved at the price of generality.


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zeroonetwothree11/04/2025

Many mathematical structures are 'irregular'. That's not a very strong argument against math as a universal descriptor.

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andoando11/04/2025

Think about what math is trying to formalize

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