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Programmer and mathematician talking with each other

by gizi on 3/15/2016, 1:15:55 AM with 1 comments
Programmer: Your mathematical verbiage in that shitty Russell-Whitehead notation is ambiguous. It cannot be verified by a machine. How do we know that it is not just a pile of bullshit?

Mathematician: That will be confirmed by another mathematician.

Programmer: How do we know that this other mathematician is not lying?

Mathematician: That will be ascertained by yet another mathematician.

Programmer: Theory of deception says that your Russell-Whitehead notation is gradually but surely turning you into a colluding gang of liars and impostors. In other words, none of you cannot be trusted. May I ask you: You do not really desire to solve the problem, do you?

Mathematician: True. We like things to be this way. There is simply no problem, and that is why all of us strive to find a job at the NSA. As I told you already, the problem that you are talking about, is just an illusion.

  • by ahazred8ta on 3/15/2016, 2:12:43 AM

    a brief overview of the notation:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Principia_Mathemat...