Argument from lack of imagination isn’t really convincing. And I do happen to think that surreal addition does make sense. Social reasons why not be interested in surreal numbers would be lack of applicability or unnaturalness reasonings. But lack of coherence really isn’t one. I do agree that the onus of responcibilty of making things workable is on the mathematician.
If you did have “flying pedestrians” that would mean human piloted cars would not be adequate first-line law enforcement. But just assuming that anything flying is a brid that can’t be criminally liable doesn’t mean that worlds outside of that assumtion are unthinkable.
And giving an ethnicity second-class citizen status just because you are uncomfortable sitting next to them in a bus is not a defensible “practical problem”.
Argument from lack of imagination isn’t really convincing. And I do happen to think that surreal addition does make sense. Social reasons why not be interested in surreal numbers would be lack of applicability or unnaturalness reasonings. But lack of coherence really isn’t one. I do agree that the onus of responcibilty of making things workable is on the mathematician.
If you did have “flying pedestrians” that would mean human piloted cars would not be adequate first-line law enforcement. But just assuming that anything flying is a brid that can’t be criminally liable doesn’t mean that worlds outside of that assumtion are unthinkable.
And giving an ethnicity second-class citizen status just because you are uncomfortable sitting next to them in a bus is not a defensible “practical problem”.