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HortenseAndI t1_jc9kdc8 wrote

Reply to comment by Seek_Equilibrium in A philosophical dive into “Everything Everywhere All at Once” by Azmisov

Y'all are getting worked up about comparing countable infinities. There are other ways to have 'most' of an infinity - e.g. there are more non-rational reals than rationals because the former is uncountable

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Seek_Equilibrium t1_jc9kzge wrote

You’re talking about cardinalities of infinite sets, which is not directly relevant to defining proportions or frequencies of the elements within an infinite set.

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HortenseAndI t1_jc9t1yj wrote

I mention it because the relevant passage in the original article is "you cannot have “most” of infinity. The only scenario where it somewhat makes sense is where a finite number of worlds evolved life, but an infinite number did not.", which is blatantly untrue given that you can compare infinite sets with different cardinalities. My point is there's no need to get hung up on the probability space of countably infinite sets to comfortably assert that that's nonsense, which is what was happening here

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