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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 15:39:27 2020 No.11939976 View Reply Original Report

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What's the most unlikely but still possible event?

Hard mode: you can't say "OP getting laid"

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 15:48:30 No.11940008 Report

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>>11939976
>you can't say "OP getting laid"
>implying that's a possible event

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 15:54:33 No.11940021 Report

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OP not being a faggot

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 15:56:16 No.11940028 Report

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>>11939976
Suppose you find any such event and it has the chance p. Then ask "what's the likelihood of that happening and an independent coin toss yielding heads". Then realize that is p/2. Come back when you found a p so small p/2 > p > 0.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 16:01:22 No.11940039 Report

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OP not being an incel

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 16:13:19 No.11940071 Report

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the probability of any continuous random variable taking an exact value is 0, but obviously possible since the random variable is guaranteed to equal something.

more generally any event that belongs to the sigma algebra but has measure zero in a probability space is the most unlikely but possible event, since you can't get more unlikely than 0.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 16:24:55 No.11940092 Report

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>>11939976
Reality. The space of what is not real is infinite and unknowable making the space of what is real the most unlikely event.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 16:31:20 No.11940101 Report

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>>11939976
>What's the most unlikely but still possible event?
That anything is pratically possible

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 17:00:34 No.11940164 Report

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>>11940071
Irrational numbers don't exist

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 21:40:01 No.11940945 Report

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anthropic principle?

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 21:41:18 No.11940949 Report

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>>11940945
I mean "humanity"?

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 21:51:51 No.11940973 Report

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>>11940164
What do you mean by "exist"? Infinite, non-repeating sequences of digits are certainly a sensible construction.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 21:59:53 No.11940988 Report

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>>11940164
>>11940973
"real" numbers don't exist

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 23:01:59 No.11941139 Report

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>>11940973
I don't really know what I mean. Uncountable infinities give me the heebie-jeebies. I think only universes which can be described with rational numbers exist, in the sense of having conscious beings inside them. That's just a hunch though, sorry for the insubstantial response.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 23:02:57 No.11941141 Report

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>>11941139
what about circles man

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 23:04:56 No.11941152 Report

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>>11939976
False vacuum collapse

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 23:07:29 No.11941160 Report

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im gonna go on a whim and say taxes and death, or texas and deaf
>>11940092
i like this post

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 23:08:10 No.11941161 Report

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>>11941141
What about them? They don't exist either. Like a lot of our continuous stuff, they work as a simpler model for certain things that exist than any discrete alternative, but they don't themselves exist anywhere.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 23:10:04 No.11941164 Report

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>>11940164
Even if you only believe in finitely descriptible objects equipped with a decidable equality, this is a retarded statement. Algebraic numbers enjoy those properties and are a strict superset of rational numbers.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 23:15:48 No.11941175 Report

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>>11939976
Everyone who has replied so far is wrong. The most unlikely but still possible event in existence is entropy decreasing on a non-local scale

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 23:24:50 No.11941192 Report

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>>11941164
I didn't realize that, this is quite enlightening. Thanks anon. This is definitely going to help me push my schizo metaphysics to the next level.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jul 2020 23:38:36 No.11941214 Report

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What is the chance of .999... ticking over eventually and equalling one?

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