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  • You can define the start of an infinite series, just not the end. (Except as ∞ or -∞). You could also have an infinite set that extends both ways.

    0 to ∞ contains an infinite amount of numbers. But so does 11 to ∞.

    More filled rooms do not “appear”, the rooms just go on without end. These is no “last” guest who moves into some previously unoccupied room. It’s just… endless. Infinite.

    It really only makes sense in abstract. Our minds aren’t built to deal with infinity.



  • Infinite hotel has infinity guests. You have all the guests move down 10 rooms. Rooms 1-10 are now free. Zero to Infinity and 11 to infinity are equally infinity, since numbers extend into infinity.

    In the same manner if you have one set of infinite guests occupy all the even numbered rooms, you will still have an infinite number of rooms open, because the set of all odd (and even) numbers extends infinitely. You could have the first set of infinite guests take each hundredth room (100, 200, 300, etc), then the next set take 99, 199, 299, etc. in that way you could fit 100 sets of infinite guests.

    It just illustrates that infinity is not an easily intuitable concept.













  • Speaking of his Wii homebrew work,

    Most people using our software just wanted to play pirated games (something we did not support, condone, or directly enable)

    He wasn’t on whatever team that released a tool that asked “Oh hey just asking do you intend to run pirated games? Just need to know for setup” then soft bricking the console if you say yes?