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

23 Post author: aspera 12 October 2013 09:18PM

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Comment author: Decius 09 October 2013 10:39:44PM 2 points [-]

Conclusions that involve infinity cannot generally be generalized to any finite solution; this seems like a 'each monkey now has two bananas' moment.

Comment author: aspera 10 October 2013 10:58:30PM 0 points [-]

By the way, are you talking about this meme, or is there another problem with monkeys and bananas?

Comment author: Decius 11 October 2013 02:23:31AM 1 point [-]

I was talking about the math that spawned that meme, yes.