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I felt similarly. Thinking through the article's comparison between first moment in time and "smallest possible positive number", maybe it's sensible... > even
by patcon 4y ago
I felt similarly. Thinking through the article's comparison between first moment in time and "smallest possible positive number", maybe it's sensible...
> even though there’s no first moment of time, we can still measure the age.
> even though there’s no first [positive number after zero], we can still measure the [range between zero and one].
That second variation doesn't seem so contradictory, so maybe the original isn't :)
- joombaga 4y agoThe second variation does not seem equivalent to me. If there's no "first moment of time", you should be measuring the [range between negative infinity and one]. Using a fixed point like "zero" is the same as assuming there _is_ a first moment of time.