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I wish the term "true AI" were replaced with "strong AI" or "artificial general intelligence" or some such term. We already have true AI - it's a vast, thriving industry. AlphaGo i…

How about just for playing a good game of Go?

If you're interested in computational complexity theory, I recommend "Computational Complexity" by Christos Papadimitriou. It's a classic, though it's a bit dated.

There are plenty of senses in which infinity IS a number -- or rather, many numbers. See e.g. the Wikipedia articles on cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, hyperreal numbers, and su…

Primes ARE fundamentally predictable, in the following very strong sense: There is a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for checking whether a number is prime (i.e. the runtim…

Careful -- because R is uncountable, there is no system for representing arbitrary irrational numbers with finite strings. All irrational numbers with periodic continued fractions …

Could you please explain why you think this guy's questions are stupid? They seemed like good questions to me. His son's school's definitions of "fact" and "opinion" seem to not be…