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Comment by gloftus

3 days ago

You can't enumerate the real numbers, but you can grab them all in one go - just draw a line!

The more I learn about this stuff, the more I come to understand how the quantitative difference between cardinalities is a red herring (e.g. CH independent from ZFC). It's the qualitative difference between these two sets that matter. The real numbers are richer, denser, smoother, etc. than the natural numbers, and those are the qualities we care about.

Sorry I apologise, I didn't realise I wasn't allowed to care about countability.