On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:20:35AM +0100, Patrick Leahy wrote: > > A measure like this works for the continuum but not for the naturals > because you can map the continuum onto a finite segment of the real line. > In m6511 Russell Standish describes how a measure can be applied to the > naturals which can't be converted into a probability. I must say, I'm not > completely sure what that would be good for. > > Paddy Leahy
Umm, doomsday argument reasoning when the total number of people who
ever will have lived is infinite (but countable). Explain more later,
if interested.
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