META: The cult of infinity

From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Aug 25 2004 - 13:03:24 MDT

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Killthread.

Reason: SL4 not for discussing basics.

"Counting backward from infinity plus one
  Is not a recipe for endless fun
  A decreasing ordinal sequence
  Has finite termination
  Because of the Axiom
  Of Well Foundation"
        -- someday this will be a children's skipping rhyme

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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