aspera comments on On the importance of taking limits: Infinite Spheres of Utility - Less Wrong

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Comment author: aspera 10 October 2013 10:55:39PM 1 point [-]

Great problem, thanks for mentioning it!

I think the answer to "how many balls did you put in the vase as T->\infty" and "How many balls have been destroyed as T->\infty" both have well defined answers. It's just a fallacy to assume that the "total number of balls in the vase as T->\infty" is equal to the difference between these quantities in their limits.