I can’t tell what this is. The first link might imply that Gwern thinks I misstated the Interesting Number Paradox (I looked at the Wikipedia article before I wrote my post, but went with my memory, and there are multiple equivalent ways of saying it, but if you think I got it wrong ….? Or maybe it was offered as a handy reference.
The Berry Paradox sounds like a very different kettle of fish … with more real complexity.
More meta: Perhaps your priors for “if someone replies to my comment, they disagree with me” are too high. ;-) Maybe not for internet in general, but LW is not an average internet site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_paradox
I can’t tell what this is. The first link might imply that Gwern thinks I misstated the Interesting Number Paradox (I looked at the Wikipedia article before I wrote my post, but went with my memory, and there are multiple equivalent ways of saying it, but if you think I got it wrong ….? Or maybe it was offered as a handy reference.
The Berry Paradox sounds like a very different kettle of fish … with more real complexity.
I would bet on this one.
More meta: Perhaps your priors for “if someone replies to my comment, they disagree with me” are too high. ;-) Maybe not for internet in general, but LW is not an average internet site.