Comment on They say in an infinite multiverse versions of you exist. Yet there's an infinity of fractional numbers between 1 and 2 with no whole number 3 between, so infinity can exist without every possibility.

pozbo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• CrayonRosary@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s not at all what they’re saying. They’re saying that 3 is not between 1 and 2. They could have also have said there’s a continuum of real numbers between 1 and 2 but none of them are 3.

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  • pozbo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe the real 3 was the friends we made along the way?

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• stingpie@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s an uncountably infinite range of numbers between 1 & 2. OP is still wrong though. If you existing has some non-zero probability, there must be an infinite number of you, since any positive number multiplied by infinity is infinity.

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  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OP didn’t say there are not an infinite number of you. They said 3 isn’t between 1 and 2, therefore infinite sets don’t necessarily contain every value.

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