What is the Procrastination Paradox? I read the recent "Vingean Reflection" paper and other materials I found, but still don't get it.
I don't understand the details, so this is all just guessing... but seems to me it's something about induction and infinity. How, if you are not careful enough, you could use induction to prove something that is not true. Something like: "There is a natural number greater than 1. If there is a natural number greater than N, there is also a natural number greater than N+1. Therefore, there is a natural number greater than any natural number." but more complicated.
The procrastination paradox seems to have a form of: "To believe that I will cle...
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