https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhSlYfVtgww
Joscha Bach basically lecturing two confused people about why Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem implies that the language of mathematics is too permissive that it led to such paradoxes; why we should adopt a stateful computational model of mathematics; why infinities don't exist, why real numbers don't exist.
I mean, I knew real numbers aren't real 20 years ago. It's surprising that the host and the other guest seemed baffled by it. This is almost 100 year old stuff...
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