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Curious. I've noticed a number of people using Gödel's incompleteness theorem as a ridiculously stretched metaphor for some idea they're trying to get across. A
by frodetb 6y ago
Curious. I've noticed a number of people using Gödel's incompleteness theorem as a ridiculously stretched metaphor for some idea they're trying to get across. At this point it's gotten utterly cringey to me. It reeks of someone who only recently heard about it, got a conceptual understanding for what it's about, and now want to show off and force the comparison in the first conversation they have. Seems like a more obscure version of the meme that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has become.
This one is the most egregious case I've seen though. It seems like it would be a waste of time to read, so I closed out fairly quickly. Have I misjudged the article?