Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Mundane Magic - Less Wrong

102 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 October 2008 04:00PM

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Comment author: gwern 28 March 2013 02:45:10AM 7 points [-]

Well, if you're able to write 1 coherent sentence in a row about the topic and then another coherent sentence, then by induction I think you should be able to write a novel involving it.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 March 2013 09:19:44PM 7 points [-]

In fact you should be able to write an infinitely long novel about it.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 28 March 2013 10:41:27PM *  13 points [-]

Hey now. Ordinary induction only implies that you can write an arbitrarily long novel of finite length. You need transfinite induction to get to infinite lengths.