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GPersontoday at 2:07 AM1 replyview on HN

The tastes and interests, and cultural pretext, of human beings are not arbitrary just because they’re not easily described.


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ziiinqtoday at 4:37 AM

Yes and therefore?

You seem to be vaguely waving in the general direction of a point, without making any concrete claims or bothering to engage with the GP’s argument.

The tastes and interests of humans are absolutely not arbitrary. They are dictated by fate, the sun and the moon gods. Or maybe by the unitary evolution of the universe’s quantum state. Or by the probability distribution of finding ourselves in a particular branch of the universe.

What bearing does this have on whether math is a collaborative endeavor?

And what is unique to math, that your argument wouldn’t apply equally to physics, sociology or financial markets? All, “truth seeking” disciplines.

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