Sniffnoy comments on Contrived infinite-torture scenarios: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 31 July 2010 12:14:14AM 0 points [-]

No, because there's an uncountable infinity of uncountable infinities.

The class of all uncountable infinities is not a set, so it can't be an uncountable infinity.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 03 August 2010 05:00:13AM 0 points [-]

This seems a bad way to think about things - except maybe for someone who's just been introduced to formal set theory - especially as proper classes are precisely those classes that are too big to be sets.