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DanielLC comments on Approaching Infinity - Less Wrong Discussion

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

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Comment author: DanielLC 01 February 2011 09:57:23PM 0 points [-]

All of them. Different ones behave in different ways, but none of them behave like finite numbers.

... but that's set theory, a step bigger than flipping the "finite" modifier.

What if I started with finite cardinals?

I think what we'd use for utility is like cardinal numbers, although that's not precisely what it is. There isn't a set of different QALYs. The finite values are more like real numbers. You still talk about how many QALYs, though.