[FRIAM] on Feynman, again

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I know.  I just thought it was an interesting post.  That we'd recently discussed Feynman was only a segue. I could also have used Russell as the segue, since Marcus quoted him in our thread.

The 1st part of Aaronson's post re: Gowers is more interesting than the later stuff.

On 10/12/2017 02:26 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> I took issue not with Feynman as a person ...

> https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3488
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>> if you write, for example, that Richard Feynman was a self-aggrandizing chauvinist showboater, then even if your remarks have a nonzero inner product with the truth, you don’t thereby “transcend” Feynman and stand above him, in the same way that set theory transcends and stands above arithmetic by constructing a model for it.  Feynman’s achievements don’t thereby become your achievements.


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