"But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education), reason itself does not err." - Attributed to Kurt Gödel [Wikiquote]
I am a rationalist and a theist. My biggest inspiration is Gödel's rationalism, and I need to say that his philosophy really changed my life. I'd recomend anyone who's interested in his perspective on reason and logic to read the biographies commenting his life and ideas written by the philospher/mathematician Hao Wang.
I realized that debating against AI was a really fruitful way to organize my own ideas, and it is specially convenient that I can stop and think for a long time before coming to a conclusion about each... (read 7471 more words →)