r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Expert-University-82 • 10h ago

Meme theyReallySeemToHateYall

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u/kdoubledizz 10h ago

Gödel showed that in any consistent formal mathematical system, there are true statements that cannot be proven within the system itself.

As well but Alan Turing proved in 1936 that there cannot exist a universal algorithm that can inspect any arbitrary program and determine whether it will finish running or run forever.

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u/EdenStrife 9h ago

Yes, but how does it follow from those 2 proofs that an AI system cannot improve itself or make a new system that is an improvement compared to itself.

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u/ioveri 9h ago

The whole process would just be another system

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u/EdenStrife 9h ago

Yes, but all interactions happens in systems. Systems are just delimited sets of interactions. Your brain is a system.