To do

[eve11]

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Start writing to-do list
cross off 1 item from to-do list
cross off 2 items from to-do list
cross off 3 items from to-do list
cross off 4 items from to-do list
cross off 5 items from to-do list
cross off 6 items from to-do list
cross off 7 items from to-do list
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My god, it's full of stars! I have achieved infinite productivity.

Comments

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Would that be to-do listing by induction on the natural numbers? :P

[eve11]

Haha yes it would. However, the end state depends on the form of the first sentence, I think. Had I started with "Write to-do list", I would have had to wait until the to-do list was complete in order to finish it. Which would achieve finite productivity for a list of any arbitrarily sized finite number N, but which would achieve infinite procrastination in the countably infinite case, since it is actually impossible to finish writing the to-do list in that case and thus impossible to cross anything off of it.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Haha so you can achieve infinite productivity or infinite procrastination depending on where you start? :P