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-----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of g??? ? Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2017 3:37 PM To: FriAM <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] on Feynman, again I know. I just thought it was an interesting post. That we'd recently discussed Feynman was only a segue. I could also have used Russell as the segue, since Marcus quoted him in our thread. The 1st part of Aaronson's post re: Gowers is more interesting than the later stuff. On 10/12/2017 02:26 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > I took issue not with Feynman as a person ... > https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3488 > >> if you write, for example, that Richard Feynman was a self-aggrandizing >> chauvinist showboater, then even if your remarks have a nonzero inner >> product with the truth, you don’t thereby “transcend” Feynman and stand >> above him, in the same way that set theory transcends and stands above >> arithmetic by constructing a model for it. Feynman’s achievements don’t >> thereby become your achievements. -- ☣ gⅼеɳ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
