Yeah which is why I don't have much sympathy for folks like Tao either

The ability to conjure math is practically as endless as time

At some point the outcome is just generation of new visual art in the form of syntax

We can't physically observe the past or future so we can only theorize and simulate; IMO that's the physical phenomena that belies Incompleteness Theorem; from Earth in the relative year of 2026 my view of the universe is fundamentally incomplete. As such all language describing too far either is incomplete always.

It makes any kind of longtermism, religious or agnostic framework espoused by kids of rich academics, empty. We all gonna stick around 10 more generations just to make sure?

Whole lot of educated people are just peddling euphemism for religious conviction they steeped in as kids but hid behind atheist semantics like "Intelligent Design."

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