DSimon comments on Proofs, Implications, and Models - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 October 2012 01:02PM

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Comment author: DSimon 16 December 2012 06:37:36AM -1 points [-]

I strongly recommend that, if you haven't already, you learn enough introductory calculus to understand what it means to take the limit of an expression as a variable approaches infinity. You are making a common mistake here by conflating your intuitive understanding about infinity with its meaning in stricter mathematical contexts.