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Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 3 weeks ago
Considering that there’s a small but non zero chance of surviving getting ran over by a train some of them are gonna survive this and since there are infinite people that will result in infinite train-proof people spawning machine
Wakmrow@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
I was actually told this is not how infinite sets work. But I didn’t get an actual explanation beyond that.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
with the extra requirement that the probability applies to the whole set I think it checks out, intuitively anyway the expected ~0.0…01 * ∞ is still ∞
Wakmrow@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
In this particular case it would still be infinite train proof people. But consider the infinite set of natural numbers. If the train killed only left handed people, you should still be left with infinite train proof right handed people. If, however you ran another train through the set that killed right handed people you would be left with no train proof people. In actual fact, though, the infinite set of “people killed by a train” is probably 100%.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Well, infinite left-hand-killing-train proof people, we don’t know about other trains.