No philosophy papers blog today, because there was nothing to report. The most amusing thing was that Gregory Chaitin updated his quotes board. It’s pretty funny to actually have a quotes board on one’s webpage in the first place, unless it is like the one that John Quiggin has. But Chaitin’s has some special qualities. Here was the quote from Simon Singh, reproduced exactly as on Chaitin’s page.

“That was Greg Chaitin. The intensity in his voice betrays his genius—because he is without doubt one of the world’s greatest mathematicians, the mathematical equivalent of David Beckham [a soccer/football star].”

There’s a corollary, or perhaps a codicil, to the principle lurking here somewhere.