What doesn't make sense to me is infinite rooms and infinite guests and is full. You ask everyone to move down 10 rooms, why is 1-10 now free? You had infinite guests too, wouldn't more filled rooms appear?
Or Is infinite only infinite (undefined) on the upper end, but defined on the lower? E.g. 1.
Socialism to them just means "I don't like it and you shouldn't either."
Rules for thee, not for me. Fuckem.
Seems odd. To be consistent, they should jail opposition candidates and stuff ballot boxes and murder traitorous opposition to the one true leader. I propose a new model : The Thunderdome. Two go in, one comes out, until the leader is chosen.
TREE(yomomma)
I am one of them. I still can't get past the Hotel paradox. To me an infinite number of guests cancels out an infinite number of rooms.
Infinite guests = infinite rooms Infinity + n = infinity To say the bus of unbound guests could just move into infinite rooms seems to give a property of rooms without limit that is not shared with the original infinite guests.
The original premize states the hotel is full. Because the only thing that matches infinite rooms are infinite guests.
Apparently I am very stupid. My sister was right all along.
“It is shameful,” wrote an ICE spokesman who declined to be named.
Well, that's everything you needed to know. This is what the 2nd ammendment was for. All enemies foreign and domestic.
While I accept the premise of the article, I find it misdirected. If we weren't watching a national housing crisis, a cost of living crisis, the death of the middle class, the climate crisis, the demographic crisis, the healthcare crisis pile up on Canadians one after the other, no one would want change and would fight to preserve our way of life.
But we went down the yellow brick road of neoliberal plattitudes about free markets and privatization and made offshore tax evasion easy and risk free for wealthy Canadians and multinationals alike.
Even today, there are tremendous forces working hard with big money to privatise one of our most effective, efficient and formerly sacrosanct institutions. Healthcare. What good is not paying directly for a family doctor when you've never had one and can't get one?
Public healthcare was fantastically productive and efficient, and the same voices that decry canada's productivity crisis are happy to keep erroding public healthcare and march in the profiteers knowing full well it will be a disaster.
Happy people don't revolt. You got unhappy people, it will be taken advantage of by your rivals and enemies.
Only if you fail to stop dictionairies from getting into the rooms.
They are incapable of talking without saying the quiet parts out loud. Silence is better than spilling the beans on evil.
Great post. I wonder what the mental math is for 200 years of industrial civilization for other civs?
Is their planet the same size? Is earth resource rich or poor in comparison? Would abundance exacerbate depletion as it is taken for granted, and would scarcity teach restraint? Is the entire planet fully colonized under exponential growth at the begining or does it happen later as harsher environs are explored?
Is their culture subject to the same ideological pursuits or are they capable of self restraint?
Fascinating topic.
Edit: I just realized that I am fearful of learning the answers for an alien civilization considering our path assumed as relatively unexceptional.
Thanks. My mistake was to view infinite as strething without end in both directions. Today I learned. Thanks.