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[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh this is a neat argument I'd never encountered before. I was also under the impression that we hadn't proved there were infinities with cardinality greater than ℵ₁.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How/why would you simultaneously hold this belief and reference the HoTT book

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are you doing with the HoTT book if you have never heard of Cantor's theorem??? You must understand there's a minimum of several years of intensive study in between these two things

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

self-study. it's been a decade since I was in school and kept encountering references to it, so I've been working through a lecture series and the book.