komponisto comments on Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions - Less Wrong

16 Post author: MichaelGR 11 November 2009 03:00AM

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 11 November 2009 03:14:37AM 21 points [-]

Could you (Well, "you" being Eliezer in this case, rather than the OP) elaborate a bit on your "infinite set atheism"? How do you feel about the set of natural numbers? What about its power set? What about that thing's power set, etc?

From the other direction, why aren't you an ultrafinitist?

Comment author: komponisto 11 November 2009 04:41:57AM 0 points [-]

<Wince>. Uh-oh; if he takes this up, I may finally have to write that post I promised back in June!