I'll be brief too.
We love or hate because we have been taught to. Did you, as a child, ever hear statements beginning or ending with: ...'Whether you life it or not'...? Can you remember if it was about you eating what foods you hated?
Integers, which are infinite, are also all words. So compared to integers, words are equal in number to integers: -infinity/minus infinity to 0/zero and 0 to positive infinity are all integers which are also all words: 8 is eight. Therefore, since there are non-numeral words, the infinite set of words is greater than the infinite set of numbers/integers. qed. PS: Since by definition, infinities must be equal, there is way to equalize the larger infinity of words with the smaller infinity of integers. It's so simple that it will tend to escape readers who have not yet overcome bias against fools and foolishness, since the simplicity looks foolish and simpleminded.
It wd be strange to anyone who still has not yet overcome bias for me to talk to people about overcoming their self-hatred by reminding them about what they said as kids.
"Love to Richard Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world."Richard II, [V, 5]
And there have been tens of thousands, if not more! By the way, a mistake is a lie in words. The real lie would be me saying 'I love you' and implying I love you all the way while hating liars.
If I misunderstood you, would you please say what else you meant? I could be poor in understanding OR you could be poor in communicating. smile
Please do not let my confidence about anything now intimidate you to the point that you don't ask questions. You have asked questions. Please do not stop now. People who have not yet overcome the bias against being ignorant or fools can't ask because they don't want to admit that they don't know. If you don't understand, would you please ask more questions? I love myself as a fool and so love and respect you as one. The first thing a wise man knows is that he is a fool. And I am sure you are wise!smile It could be that I am a poor communicator or that you have poor understanding.smile
Since, by definition, infinities must be equal
You do not understand the relevant area of mathematics.
Please do not let my confidence about anything now intimidate you to the point that you don't ask questions.
You may rest assured that it will not. However, there are other factors that lead me not to ask you any further questions.
I don't think this discussion is achieving anything worth while. Farewell.
To break up the awkward silence at the start of a recent Overcoming Bias meetup, I asked everyone present to tell their rationalist origin story - a key event or fact that played a role in their first beginning to aspire to rationality. This worked surprisingly well (and I would recommend it for future meetups).
I think I've already told enough of my own origin story on Overcoming Bias: how I was digging in my parents' yard as a kid and found a tarnished silver amulet inscribed with Bayes's Theorem, and how I wore it to bed that night and dreamed of a woman in white, holding an ancient leather-bound book called Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (eds. D. Kahneman, P. Slovic, and A. Tversky, 1982)... but there's no need to go into that again.
So, seriously... how did you originally go down that road?
Added: For some odd reason, many of the commenters here seem to have had a single experience in common - namely, at some point, encountering Overcoming Bias... But I'm especially interested in what it takes to get the transition started - crossing the first divide. This would be very valuable knowledge if it can be generalized. If that did happen at OB, please try to specify what was the crucial "Aha!" insight (down to the specific post if possible).