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"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
He will struggle to ask the infinite staff of the infinite hotel to move infinite occupants into another set of infinite rooms. After all:
Even if Sisyphus is infinite and the boulder is infinite, they can be accommodated within an infinite space.
This struggle will, according to Camus, provide some meagre happiness to offset the fact he's stuck in a stupid, made up, unrealistic trolley problem; one which serves only to trap people within consequentialist moral thought as if that is the only ingredient for a moral decision, ignoring all other bases for moral decisions.
But not if they're uncountably infinite.
Sadly, the Hilbert Hotel is slated for demolition which is why it's on Sisyphus' path. After that whole "everyone moves to double their room number" debacle, Hilbert had to process a fraction of the infinite guests' refunds because they didn't feel like changing rooms to one several million hallways down. And a percentage of infinite guests refunds is still infinite, so Hilbert is in infinite debt now.
Theseus, meanwhile, has been trying to justify buying a new ship for ages but his crew is adamant about right to repair, so he's looking for an easy exit.
Infinite guest = infinite money, infinite refunds would be fine, and infinite money would still be left over.
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