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For those who find this interesting, Chaitin's work is a subset of (or complement to) Kolmogorov's work on complexity theory; fundamentally, the unification of
by dmreedy 10y ago
For those who find this interesting, Chaitin's work is a subset of (or complement to) Kolmogorov's work on complexity theory; fundamentally, the unification of computation and representation under Shannon-style Information. It collapses so many superficially different ideas about representation and function as to be spooky. Or beautiful.
- westoncb 10y agoIs there some work of his in particular that you'd recommend? I remember coming across a pop-sci thing he'd written that seemed interesting, but I was ultimately turned off by cheesy graphic design kind of things. Just re-located it. It was called "Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega"