Infinities make mathematical sense, but they don’t make real world sense. When you’re measuring expected value and the value comes from the actual physical world, it can (empirically) never be infinite.
*You could say black hole singularities are an infinity, but even those are a delta measure with a finite integral.
Infinities make mathematical sense, but they don’t make real world sense. When you’re measuring expected value and the value comes from the actual physical world, it can (empirically) never be infinite.
*You could say black hole singularities are an infinity, but even those are a delta measure with a finite integral.
You can still assign actual infinities a decent chance of existing without measuring them directly. Not being able to measure them doesn’t make them incoherent or impossible. I think the universe is probably infinite in spatial extent based on current physics: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5nzDZTsi35mDaJny3/punching-utilitarians-in-the-face?commentId=G3DELj34he2bsqszf
I think you’re using “sense” too restrictively.