https://lemmy.world/comment/4480479

  • muddi [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Gödel, the guy who famously proved that the foundations of mathematics is flawed, also pointed out Gödel's Loophole in the US constitution when he was naturalizing as a US citizen which allows the US to legally turn into a fascist dictatorship.

    Also good point to point out that the US constitution is the second attempt at writing down government, after the failed Articles of Confederation.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      the guy who famously proved that the foundations of mathematics is flawed

      It's not really that it is flawed, but that any formal system is going to have blindspots. I think the commonality here is that our boy just loved analyzing formal systems and thinking of corner cases and exploitable features.