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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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They say in an infinite multiverse versions of you exist. Yet there's an infinity of fractional numbers between 1 and 2 with no whole number 3 between, so infinity can exist without every possibility. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

OP discovers countable infinity

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's not at all what they're saying. They're saying that 3 is not between 1 and 2. They could have also have said there's a continuum of real numbers between 1 and 2 but none of them are 3.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Maybe the real 3 was the friends we made along the way?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's an uncountably infinite range of numbers between 1 & 2. OP is still wrong though. If you existing has some non-zero probability, there must be an infinite number of you, since any positive number multiplied by infinity is infinity.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

OP didn't say there are not an infinite number of you. They said 3 isn't between 1 and 2, therefore infinite sets don't necessarily contain every value.