Douglas Hofstadter on Loops, Beauty, Free Will, AI, God, Utopia and Gaza

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• hackandthink 16 hours ago
  A really likeable person. GEB was highly regarded in my peer group. I should have read it more naively myself. But this interview makes me want to read "I am a strange loop".

  https://www.ams.org/notices/200707/tx070700852p.pdf

  (too bad that I don't like the word "mysterian", otherwise I would join the club)
• nh23423fefe 7 hours ago
  > The current collective insanity that has swept over half of America is a fact.

  This is why they lose. Boring and wrong narrative to feel superior. The choice to remain confused is self-protecting delusion.

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  • andybak 1 hour ago
    I have no idea what you just tried to say.
• milesrout 15 hours ago
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