• mommykink
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    1406 months ago

    Are we even sure that Sisyphus can make it to either location? Because in order to reach a destination he must first make it to the halfway point, right? But to make it there, he’s gotta make it to that point’s halfway point, but before he gets there he need to…

  • @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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    6 months ago

    Dosen’t matters what you choose, given that for sisyphus to reach his destination first he have to reach half, then half of it, then half again and again making movement impossible.

      • jawa21
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        16 months ago

        Not necessarily downhill, but the possibility of downhill is implied. Both of these locations would need to be infinitely high in order for the direction to be uphill.

        • @xia@lemmy.sdf.org
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          26 months ago

          AFAIK “infinitely up” is more plausible than “infinitely down”, as in most systems you would eventually hit a center-of-mass when going down.

  • @affiliate@lemmy.world
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    266 months ago

    you can always add an empty room without changing the total number of rooms, so there should be plenty of room for sisyphus and his boulder at the hotel

  • beefbot
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    146 months ago

    Sisyphus is both happy and not happy, as long as we don’t ask. But the instant we ask, it’s one or the other

    (surely someone already made this joke)

  • @PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world
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    116 months ago

    If he goes to the hotel, though, he will get to hear a great story from the owner of the hotel about a once beautiful but now decaying resort that includes a sweeping adventure involving a not-exactly-straight con man, an art theft that was not a theft, Willem Dafoe, and Tilda Swinton.

  • Nom Nom
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    6 months ago

    When the math teacher does philosophy questions.

  • @Etterra@lemmy.world
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    76 months ago

    It depends on how much it costs to rent a room at the hotel. If it’s exorbitantly high, then the hotel can just be knocked down it’s no problem, you’re only going to risk endangering rich people and so that’s a victimless incident. The ship of Theseus on the other hand is most likely manned by ancient Greeks, who while not necessarily the best people by modern standards, are probably mostly poor or even slaves.

    • @NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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      16 months ago

      Right you are! So, how does this help us answer the question?

      P.S. Sometimes I wonder how many people on here actually believe that human value is inversely proportional to wealth with no other factors. Repeat it enough times, even as a joke or hyperbole, and you start to believe it.