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bloop_bleep

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The problem here is that people conflate how we write down real numbers in decimal notation with what they are and how they work. In the mathematical definition for real numbers that is nearly universally used because it has the desired properties, where real numbers are Cauchy sequences (sequences which in a precise sense "converge") of rational numbers under a certain equivalence relation, there is no difference between the number represented by "0.9999..." and the number represented by "1"; if this were not the case, you would have two solutions for 9x = 9 of x as Starver was saying, and everything breaks and is not useful.
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There’s a new The Click video showing AI, and one of the videos was someone turning into a cobra that then turned into a bird
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I may have wasted all those years
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I may have spent too long in darkness
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