Russell once remarked that all of mathematics would be trivial to a sufficiently intelligent being. It builds conceptual tools for limited minds, that lets them understand far beyond their natural reach.

In a world with ASI, having that capacity is vital.

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card_zero 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Ha, are you invoking something he said prior to discovering Russell's paradox? Which came about because he wanted to show that all of mathematics can be derived from logic about sets, but instead he showed that it couldn't be.

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a57721 4 hours ago | parent [-]

As someone with a math background, I don't see Russell's paradox as some interesting mathematics beyond set theory. It's just an example showing that one should be careful about defining sets.

	▲	auggierose 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		As someone with a math background, and a logic background, I think Russell's paradox is most interesting, beyond just set theory. It shows us that one should be careful about what exactly a definition is.