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Yes, you edited your reply to be a lot less polite after you saw my reply to your reply, and I don’t think I did anything to provoke that. I might’ve responded
by codeflo 5y ago
Yes, you edited your reply to be a lot less polite after you saw my reply to your reply, and I don’t think I did anything to provoke that. I might’ve responded differently if I had realized you were in attack mode.
Some points I’d like to clarify:
1. Multiple contradictory edits in the answer is weird by Stack Exchange standards regardless of the merits of the discussion, that’s the main thing I observed.
2. Whether Euclid uses contradiction or not is not really open to interpretation: the word “absurd” appears right in the proof. If people want to split hairs about whether that contradiction is in the lemma or the main proof, I guess fine.
3. There are of course multiple subschools of constructivism that accept and don’t accept different things. Not all of them ignore computational complexity. For example, some ultrafinitists reject the unique prime factorization theorem on the basis that you can’t really execute the factorization algorithm even for relatively modest numbers. To be clear, that’s not exactly my view, but I would for example agree that something like “just find the prime factors” sweeps a bit of relevant subtlety under the rug: you can only do that conceptually, not actually.
- ogogmad 5y ago> Yes, you edited your reply to be a lot less polite after you saw my reply to your reply, and I don’t think I did anything to provoke that. I might’ve responded differently if I had realized you were in attack mode. Sorry. Point taken. I'm way too quick to annoy at the moment, and I retroactively edit too much. I probably should keep my comments relatively unchanged after making them. > If people want to split hairs This entire discussion is about splitting hairs. And the MO answer acknowledges that there's a contradiction somewhere, and only argues over where it is. See the last edit on the answer.
- codeflo 5y ago> Sorry. Point taken. I'm way too quick to annoy at the moment That makes two of us. No offense taken.