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It's because of the self-referential, contradictory nature of Wolfram Alpha's answer. Kind of like trying to assign a truth value to the statement "this stateme
by jganetsk 17y ago
It's because of the self-referential, contradictory nature of Wolfram Alpha's answer. Kind of like trying to assign a truth value to the statement "this statement is false".
By putting in "how to program", and having it misinterpret it as "What is the world's most powerful computational software?", having the answer come out as "Wolfram Mathematica", and having the whole thing be powered by Wolfram Mathematica, you get a contradiction (maybe even 2)... in Gödelian style.
- yters 17y agoNot only that. Wolfram's attempt to take Godel's place in mathematics is contradicted by this answer, which is a self referential demonstration that the Wolfram axiomatic system (both the person and Alpha) cannot produce the genius of Godel, and is thus incomplete. Thus, Wolfram merely proves Godel's genius, via the original form of Godel's genius in the first place. Basically, Wolfram is ingenious at proving his disingenuity.