Magician: it's 7, isn't it? Cantor:.... ... .. Shit
Magician: Pick any number between 1 and 10, and I'll guess it Cantor: A real number? Magician: well, yea.. Cantor: You know what, let's put some money on this
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Thank you :D, please don't tell my advisor
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eh, by the finiteness of the number of atoms in a given human brain the set of thinkable real numbers is countable
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A more intuitive characterization: the set of computable numbers is countable. We as humans probably can’t go beyond TMs in our descriptions.
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This magician obviously knows little about real numbers.
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Brouwer: Lol, Cantor never actually picks any actual number...
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The probability of guessing it is nonzero
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The probability is actually precisely zero, which means that you /almost surely/ wouldn’t guess it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely …
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