penrose
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- because we never did that right it's just a thing that some people thought we could and this leads to confusion so for instance roger penrose uses this as an— Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #212
- What was without going into the detail, what was it about? Is this Penrose's forgotten theorem? This is Penrose's theorem which hasn't even been seen because it was never published.— Why Did The Mathematician Cross The Road? - with Roger Penrose
- And the original justifications given by — it was originally Penrose, Geroch, and a few others back in the 60s in the golden era. You look at the justifications there, and it's very much metaphysics. It's Leibnizian metaphysics. It's the idea that, oh, well, nature — why would nature stop when nature could keep building? So she has to keep building. And so these extendable models are unreasonable because that's just not how nature works.— It's Not That We Don't Know. It's That We Can't.