The Crackpot Offer — LessWrong
When I was very young—I think thirteen or maybe fourteen—I thought I had found a disproof of Cantor’s Diagonal Argument, a famous theorem which demon…
x The Crackpot Offer — LessWrong Letting Go Confirmation Bias Logic & Mathematics Sunk-Cost Fallacy Frontpage 144 The Crackpot Offer by Eliezer Yudkowsky 8th Sep 2007 3 min read 73 144 When I was very young—I think thirteen or maybe fourteen—I thought I had found a disproof of Cantor’s Diagonal Argument, a famous theorem which demonstrates that the real numbers outnumber the rational numbers. Ah, the dreams of fame and glory that danced in my head! My idea was that since each whole number can be decomposed into a bag of powers of 2, it was possible to map the whole numbers onto the set of subs
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