paper-machine comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Spinning_Sandwich 14 September 2012 10:53:57AM 0 points [-]

The well-ordering principle doesn't really have any effect on canonical orderings, like that induced by the traditional less-than relation on the real numbers.

This doesn't affect the truth of your claim, but I do think that DanArmak's point was quite separate from the language he chose. He might instead have worded it as having no real solution, so that any solution must be not-real.