It's true. If you ask a mathematician what number is the biggest they won't give you a straight answer.
Like, what even is an aleph?
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It's true. If you ask a mathematician what number is the biggest they won't give you a straight answer.
Like, what even is an aleph?
In set theory, sets containing an infinite number things are relatively easy to describe. For example, "All the counting numbers" is a set with an infinite number of things in it.
Many sets with an infinite number of things have a one to one correspondence to each other, meaning that we can describe a function that takes elements of one set as an input, gives elements of the other set as an output, and spans both sets - no element is skipped on either side.
"All the even counting numbers" has a one to one correspondence with "All the counting numbers". You can look into Hilbert's Hotel for a good demonstration of how this works.
Not all sets with an infinite number of things correspond with the set of all counting numbers, because some are fundamentally bigger. This difference in size doesn't happen just once (e.g. there are countably infinite sets, and uncountably infinite sets, and that's all we need to know), there are actually an infinite number of sets of progressively bigger infinite numbers of elements.
Because this is a confusing mess, we needed a way to keep track of how infinitely big each infinitely big set is, and the aleph cardinalities are the preferred way to do that. Any set with cardinality of aleph zero (aka "aleph null") has a one to one correspondence with any other set with cardinality aleph zero. The same is true for every other aleph cardinality. Two sets of cardinality aleph thirty seven have a one to one correspondence with each other.
Anyways, busy beaver(tree(aleph omega)) is the biggest number.
Pretty sure they were being sarcastic. I mean they know the word aleph which strongly indicates they know what sets of infinite numbers are.
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I heard there was a earthquake in Rio de Janeiro. The casualties were in the Brazilians.
OK but that's hilarious.
This is the AI I want. Like pure early day chaos where Will Smith couldn't eat spaghetti, that Forever Seinfeld on twitch, the weird recipes like 80lbs of salt.
Every time I see one of those AI fuckups and try it myself, it never works :/
i'm sorry tree(3)
ahem.
Brazillian?
Best I can do is 3.50.
"God damn Loch Ness monster!"
I always liked Graham's Number. I didn't like that it was TREE(1)=1, TREE(2)=3, and TREE(3) dwarfs even Graham's Number. At least G=g_64 which is built up from g_1.
You just sent me down a rabbit hole learning about TREE(3), thank you
To be fair, there are a ton of people living in Brazil. There are like, Brazillians of them.
I want a Brazilian dollars lol
Well, guess I am a number now
I always knew I could count on you
valeu broder, é nóis 👍
Honestly this is a great answer
"Pick a number - any number - between one and one Brazilian. Don't tell me the number. Now multiply it by 3..."
24 is the highest number.
24 is the highest number.
Garbage in, garbage out
Haha, this reminds me of sitting in bed with my 4 year old talking about big numbers.
This is likely fake, but still funny. I just tried it and got a reasonable answer.
Could still be real. Ai will give different answers to the same question.
It's quite plausibly real. Gemini can def get in shitposty basins and has historically had a fairly inconsistent coherence across samples.
If this is real an unedited... maybe ai wasnt a mistake
Here's a fun game: ask gemini to accurately represent all digits in the largest number possible with a 64-bit float. So far I've gotten 0,000 and a 65,013-digit number that's mostly zeroes.
Haha, my partner also does this when I ask what's you're favourite X its never just one thing, its ALLWAYS a list of things.
It's the number that's bigger than any other.