wedrifid comments on LINK: Infinity, probability and disagreement - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 05 March 2013 10:00:57AM 3 points [-]

When N=infinity, N/2=N/6, so Tsvi's version goes through with no changes :P

I always wonder why people do things like say N/2=N/6 "Because it's infinite" then act surprise when it implies something weird. It is only very slightly more impressive than the trick from highschool algebra that makes 1=2 because someone divided by zero.