• vistencluse@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    trick question, the hotel is infinite, so you can move guest 1 to room 2, guest 2 to room 3 and so on and have room 1 leftover for Sisyphus and his boulder, therefore he is indeed happy

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      1 year ago

      Not entirely true.

      There are conditions where an infinite hotel can “run out” of rooms. Veritasium has a great video on this. Here’s the link because there’s no earthly way a dumbass like me can explain it intelligibly with just words.

      https://youtu.be/OxGsU8oIWjY?t=194