User blog comment:Nnn6nnn/Where Will Googology Go?/@comment-32213734-20180107111324/@comment-30754445-20180214072902

Regarding the "average person", you may be right.

However, I'm confident that there will come a day when any person who considers himself an intellectual would have a strong background in mathematics (including googology).

I'll go as far as saying that you can't be a serious philosopher without at least a cursory understanding of certain topics in 20th century mathematics. Things like Godel's incompleteness theorem, algebric structures (such as groups), and yes: googology.

Because it is impossible to speak intelligently about things like metaphysics when you don't even know how the platonic world of numbers looks like. The realization that "infinity is farther than you think" should be a required eye-opener for any budding philosopher.