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

37 points by squirrel

by hackandthink

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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)

by nh23423fefe

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> 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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by milesrout

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