Scott Aaronson's 9-year-old son: "I don't think problems should be independent of the axioms"
basedjensen · x · 2026-10-16
Quantum computing researcher Scott Aaronson's 9-year-old son told mathematician Elliot Glazer at an ice cream shop: "I don't like set theory. I don't think problems should be independent of the axioms." Glazer joked he wasn't expecting such a tough crowd. The quip about axiom-dependence is delighting the AI/math circle on X.
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