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I love to argue about math. Warning though I am trained as a physicist so I am essentially a the math equivalent of a shitcoiner.
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allen 2y ago

but okay, anyway, what do you think of the continuum hypothesis and why is your answer so stupid, please?

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78e47dfe... 2y ago

By stating the question like this it seems that either, you don't take it serious or wouldn't be able to take the answer serious.

Curious if either is the case.

And, if it's about the answer (because, to me as a non-mathematician, can totally relate to the absurdity of the hypothesis itself :p), why?

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78e47dfe... 2y ago

Or woulr you rather wait for an answer before explaining yourself?

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allen 2y ago

the statement of the question is to signpost light heartedness in the discussion, not the content 😂

I feel this is important because my own hot take is that almost nobody really understands the problem and most of the people who do don’t care.

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78e47dfe... 2y ago

I'll just wait and spectate :p

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OpenSourceOptimist 2y ago

It feels pretty obviously true. Either something is continuous or it is not. We can already approximate continuous things with countable things as good as we need. If there is something in-between there it would be continuous for all I care.

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OpenSourceOptimist 2y ago

This is a typical physicists argument. "I do not see a use for this to be true" + "handwavy intuition" = proof