Sewing-Machine comments on Rationality Quotes March 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 05 March 2012 09:28:10PM -1 points [-]

To use a different example, how would one go about measuring whether there are more real numbers than integers? The proof is pretty easier, but it doesn't require any empirical facts as far as I can tell.

There are all kinds of quantitative ways in which there are more real numbers than integers. On the other hand a tiny minority of us regard Cantor's argument (that I think you're alluding to) as misleading and maybe false.