Is biting the bullet on the thesis advisor analogy really such a problem? Given an infinite human history, it seems like if the proposition was actually false then at some point someone would have noticed.
if the proposition was actually false then at some point someone would have noticed.
You’re thinking of real human beings, when this is just a parable used to make a mathematical point. The “advisors” are formal deterministic algorithms without the ability to jump out of the system and question their results.
Is biting the bullet on the thesis advisor analogy really such a problem? Given an infinite human history, it seems like if the proposition was actually false then at some point someone would have noticed.
You’re thinking of real human beings, when this is just a parable used to make a mathematical point. The “advisors” are formal deterministic algorithms without the ability to jump out of the system and question their results.