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cousin_it comments on Approaching Infinity - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: Psychohistorian 01 February 2011 08:11AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 01 February 2011 08:21:03PM *  2 points [-]

Those hungry for followups should see this HN discussion (note the comments by Eliezer) and this one on MathOverflow. Also there's a related problem about specifying big computable numbers, discussed on HN here. Both problems seem to be related to defining large countable ordinals, though a detailed discussion of the relationship is too large for this margin to contain.