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I don’t believe it.

Steve Wolfram should grow some balls and say he doesn’t believe it either.

I don’t think it’s a question of ‘belief’. AOC is logically independent of the other ZF axioms: you may find it aesthetically ugly (a viewpoint I’m sympathetic to). But you can’t disbelieve it any more than you can disbelieve Euclid’s parallel postulate.

Interestingly politicians (like AOC) are also independent of logic.

But I don't have to use it, or I can deprecate it.

Particularly I think those "real" numbers are phony compared to the integers and rationals. (At least the latter have names)

Here's a professor of math in some Australian university who has pursued a philosophy of mathematics while basically rejecting infinities, axiom of choice, and reals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U75S_ZvnWNk

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