• AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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    No, but each individual human is assigned identically one gayness value, therefore the number of values we must sort is equal to the number of living humans

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      But the possible number of outcomes is not limited by the subset of living humans. While we may have a currently highest number that doesn’t mean it IS the highest possible, nor that there is exactly one of them.

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        While we may have a currently highest number that doesn’t mean it IS the highest possible

        I would argue you can only be gay if you’re alive, so you only need to compare living people, the theoretical maximum doesn’t matter, only the actual maximum of a finite number.

        nor that there is exactly one of them.

        Agreed. It might be a shared gold medal.

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        It is true that the gayest person currently alive, the gayest person ever in history, and the gayest person who could possibly exist may well exhibit three different levels of gayness; however, I believe that, were one sufficiently determined, it would be possible to find all three.