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What if Gödel never actually found a loophole but simply intentionally left behind a cryptic puzzle, with the influence of his celebrity friends, so that future
by k_sze 6y ago
What if Gödel never actually found a loophole but simply intentionally left behind a cryptic puzzle, with the influence of his celebrity friends, so that future generations will keep scrutinizing the constitution, watching it for dangerous changes?
- tom_mellior 6y agoEven simpler: What if Gödel never actually found a loophole? The only source we have is Morgenstern recounting an anecdote more than twenty years later. He may well have misremembered/misunderstood/taken out of context/embellished some remark that Gödel made. It makes for a good anecdote, but that doesn't make it true.