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Re:Boltzmann Brain by paulrouget on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:11PM (#22082207)
Can you expand on that?

If a state is possible, isn’t an infinite amount of permutations will form that state? Isn’t that the definition of a non zero probability?

Re:Boltzmann Brain by ducttapecrown on Saturday January 18, 2020 @01:18AM (#22082710)
If you pick a real number at random, what's the probability it will be rational?
Re:Boltzmann Brain by paulrouget on Saturday January 18, 2020 @02:05AM (#22082873)
Not zero. I think the proper way to define it is “almost never” when infinite are involved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely

I’m not sure if that means it will for sure happen or not, if the draw happens an infinite amount of times.

Re:Boltzmann Brain by drdeca on Saturday January 18, 2020 @04:05AM (#22083315)
In the standard measure theory formalization of probability, that outcome set does have measure exactly 0.

Perhaps we could use a variation on in which somehow supports some infinitesimal values, but if one wishes to keep both countable additivity and have the distribution be uniform in the sense of translation invariant, then we run into difficulties.

Re:Boltzmann Brain by lmuench on Saturday January 18, 2020 @07:43AM (#22084126)
There is an infinite amount of numbers between 0.0 and 1.0, none of them are 2.0