What David Deutsch thinks about mathematics

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Physicist at the University of Oxford and a pioneer of quantum computation; author of The Fabric of Reality (1997) and The Beginning of Infinity (2011).

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1. 3 Oct 2012

   Our readingBayesianism is a version of the mistaken induction approach to AGI.

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   Their wordsCurrently one of the most influential versions of the ‘induction’ approach to AGI (and to the philosophy of science) is Bayesianism, unfairly named after the 18th-century mathematician Thomas Bayes, who was quite innocent of the mistake.

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