Fetishes

[neilk]

That's Russell's paradox, which he knew all about, since it was bloody named after him.

Godel would have said something more like this: "Sure, put me down for 'fetish for systems of fetish knowledge which cannot prove the existence of this fetish.'"

Sorry to subject you to pedantry, but someone was wrong on the internet.

[smanek]

I was thinking the same thing.

One of my favorite set theory jokes is based on Russel's Paradox.

A mathematician starts a proof: "Consider the set of all sets that have never been considered. Oh wait ... never mind"

[flipbrad]

Read "Godel Escher Bach - an Eternal Golden Braid"? Wonderful book by a remarkably clever computer scientist attempting a (very tricky) definition of consciousness (or 'a system getting meaning when composed of meaningless parts', like your singular identity from a jumbled mass of 'selfish' neurones), with a view to explaining his thoughts on how to achieve strong AI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

[michael_dorfman]

Very funny, but the misspelling makes me wince.

[ars]

I didn't notice one, care to specify?

[ars]

He fixed it. You can un-wince.

[sdpurtill]

This isn't Digg. This has nothing to do with Hacker News either.

[technoguyrob]

I dare say very few of the Digg population would understand this joke.

Personally, I haven't laughed at an XKCD this much in a while.

[felixc]

I usually don't like to engage in the "this doesn't belong on HN" game, but the fact is that most of us who enjoy XKCD already read it, thanks to the magic of RSS or knowing what day of the week it is. So basically, if you like XKCD, this is old news, and if you don't, this is boring news. Summation: this doesn't belong on HN.

[swombat]

Pretty much any xkcd cartoon has everything to do with Hacker News.

[sutro]

There is no more relevant Hacker News than material relating to sexual fetishes. PG, you might want to rename the site "Sexual Fetish News" just to make that clear.

Thanks for the karma, folks. I'm here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitresses.

[rms]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_t...