>>15461080
>Why does he like the rationals so much?
Why do otherwise intelligent people go retarded, and with motivated intent to be irrational? Same reason as always.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280387313
The crux of his notion appears to be,
>These numbers are completely inaccessible to us, and always will be. [...] Neither you nor I nor anyone ever living in this universe will ever be able to factor this number, since most of its ‘prime factors’ are almost surely so huge as to be inexpressible, which means they don’t exist.
But... why?
His thinking begin in 2005-2006, see 1999 opinion piece "Real fish, real numbers, real jobs" https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Norman-Wildberger/publication/225795896
>But here's where religion, or Modern Biology, comes to our aid. It may be impossible for us to know whether a given complementary pattern of zeroes and ones continues indefinitely, but it is clearly not impossible for God, or a slimy intergalactic superoctopus, to know.
I think we all know where the hiccup in his brain occurred now.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267297443
>Evolution versus Intelligent Design: a mathematician's view (2008)
>a long study of mathematics has slowly led me towards a mild form of ID
Bingo. The irrationality of his position, as noted by >>15461333 already, stems from an equally irrational belief. Adult santa aka God.

There's a very interesting coincidence in how the writings of one "kairosfocus" from "Uncommondescent" parallel Wildberger's, though they're not the same person. I suspect, though I cannot prove, that wildberger is in some way affiliated with Scripture Union or some subdivision of the cult-like nondenominational international group. There are way too many parallels, and subdivisions of SU do have mission statement to target children and education as Wildberger is doing. Wildberger's notions aren't new, and weirdly SU-affiliated persons like KF were parroting them about the same time.

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