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Decius comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Decius 03 September 2012 03:32:35AM 0 points [-]

Also, if you multiply any hyperreal number besides zero by a real number, you get something isomorphic to the reals,

True

so you can multiply by infinity and it still will work the same.

Only if you have a way to describe infinity in terms of a real number.

Comment author: DanielLC 03 September 2012 04:35:58AM 1 point [-]

Only if you have a way to describe infinity in terms of a real number.

You just pick some infinite hyper real number and multiply all the real numbers by that. What's the problem?

Comment author: Decius 03 September 2012 06:19:21PM 1 point [-]

Oh, you're saying assign a hyperreal infinite numbers to the value of individual lives. That works, but be very careful how you value life. Contradictions and absurdities are trivial to develop when one aspect is permitted to override every other one.