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LessWrong is an online forum and community dedicated to improving human reasoning and decision-making. We seek to hold true beliefs and to be effective at accomplishing our goals. Each day, we aim to be less wrong about the world than the day before. A community blog devoted to refining the art of rationality

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lesswrong.com > posts > Bc4Ch63cx8KHdQABw > how-big-is-the-sun-how-could-you-figure-it-out

How big is the Sun? How could you figure it out? — LessWrong

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (574+ words) I’m a few chapters into Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark. By this point he’s covered the ingenuities of the ancient Greeks, taking my knowled…...

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Computational models of first-order theories — LessWrong

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1393+ words) For simplicity, we will restrict ourselves to models of first-order set theories without equality, and later show how to generalize the approach to arbitrary (recursively enumerable) first-order theories. The language of set theory includes quantifiers ∀ (forall), ∃ (exists), logical connectives ∧ (and),…...

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Finding pi and G in Mathland — LessWrong

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (535+ words) This post is a Cunningham's law draft, c. 75% finished. Consider a) waiting until this notice has disappeared to read a more coherent post, or b) criticizing it with a focus on what would be right, not just what is wrong. Science explains physical…...