...evitably result in a system just as complicated. This is an example of the paradox in complexity theory that if you attempt to simplify a system of problems b
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...e rose to power and committed all his atrocities would cause a Grandfather paradox... Cueball invented the time machine and send Black Hat back because he wan
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...then arrange for them to fall in love before he ceases to exist due to the paradox of his own parents never having children. An unintended side-effect of the
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...st (near {{w|light speed}}) for 74 non-subjective years to return {{w|Twin paradox|without having aged much}}. However, this would not explain why she thinks
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...ed to correct the text for comic #1153 (to change 'apparent paradox' into 'paradox', since the word means 'apparent contradiction') but the page is locked (I
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...going on here and how I can fix it?--[[User:ParadoX|ParadoX]] ([[User talk:ParadoX|talk]]) 04:34, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
...Hope everyone else does it as well.--[[User:ParadoX|ParadoX]] ([[User talk:ParadoX|talk]]) 05:16, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
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....S., and an unimportant one at that, which pokes fun at the UK, creating a paradox (sort of).
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...y time they get halfway to Christmas. This is a joke because of {{w|Zeno's paradox}}, which said "Before a moving object can travel a certain distance, it mus
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...s that cannot be proved from the axioms. His proof used a self-referential paradox.
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(3) and (4) together form the Russell Paradox. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.170|108.162.219.170]] 18:09, 27 Aug
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...hese "pieces" into two distinct balls both identical to the original. This paradox has been proven for theoretical shapes, but requires infinitely complicated
...nt alternate form of set theory. Since the proof for the Banach–Tarski paradox relies on accepting the axiom of choice, the interviewer is suggesting Cueb
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...the thing which I find the most “paradoxical” about the Banach-Tarski paradox is that it can’t be done by dividing the ball into only 4 pieces, but thi
...t I believed to be a contradictory statement. The original statement "This paradox has been proven for just about anything... except objects made of atoms, wh
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In the title text, [[Randall]] notes a social paradox: that people tend to be disparaging of such inefficient time-wasting while
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The {{w|Fermi paradox}} is the question of why humans have yet to detect any evidence of extrater
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See also the {{w|Unexpected hanging paradox|paradox of the "unexpected hanging"}}.
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The title text is essentially the beginning of the hanging paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox
:The unexpected hanging paradox only applies when you have a measure of foreknowledge. [[User:Davidy22|Davi
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...ing of spatially separated events depend on the observer?}}", or "{{w|Twin paradox|can time run at different rates for different observers?}}". But it doesn'
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...also the first link in Philosophy) --[[User:ParadoX|ParadoX]] ([[User talk:ParadoX|talk]]) 09:03, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
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...st, then it is also specifically an illustration of the {{w|false positive paradox}}: A test that is rarely wrong, but which tests for an event that is even r
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...ith this property is called the Condorcet winner. Due to the {{w|Condorcet paradox}}, an election with 3 or more candidates might not have a Condorcet winner,
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...idate based on the election system chosen - which is exactly the Condorset paradox, but when applied to the selection of which voting system you want rather t
...C, C or A, thus no option wins head to head against the others (Condorset Paradox). An example I recently read was economic policy, and how the options being
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...elocity. Honestly I think the greeks knew about "velocity" too. But in the paradox: could dt in dx/dt actually be zero? -- [[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User
...requires infinite acceleration & velocity. But it reminds me of a similar paradox involving an infinitely large ball pit (or jar, or bag, or other container)
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...m chaos theory. And, sorry, it has nothing to do with the Banach–Tarski paradox - that's just mindless name-dropping.
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...annot add days to the counter without re-setting the sign, which creates a paradox: either you add a day by re-setting it (which, according to the sign, means
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The third panel is a reference to the {{w|Quine paradox}}, whereby a sentence repeated twice in succession proves to be paradoxical
...atement is false" but without the explicit self-reference. Named after the paradox, a {{w|quine (computing)|quine}} is also a computer program which outputs i
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...ent does not end well for the ant according to Randall, likely because the paradox often ends up with incredibly long amounts of time until the ant finally ge
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...ser-uploaded images without profit"? Sell sth without profit sounds like a paradox... – [[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 14:23, 21 D
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...crete, solution lies in probability nature of quantum mechanics. The arrow paradox, meanwhile, is based on incorrect assumption: uniform motion is normal and
...d this branch of mathematics' ability to deal with infinites, resolves the paradox, because an infinite sum of infinitesimals (in some cases... Zeno's geometr
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:'''Arrow paradox:''' At any instant in time, an arrow suspended in mid-air is no different f
:'''Dichotomy paradox:''' Suppose I need to go from point A to point B. First I must walk halfway
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...). One of the most famous examples on this is the {{w|Schrödinger's cat}} paradox.
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...divides into 65.94 (80.02-14.08). --[[User:ParadoX|ParadoX]] ([[User talk:ParadoX|talk]]) 00:58, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
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...ng ca. 1975), is still around and heavily used. [[Randall]] points out the paradox that after 15 years he is still unable to write out a proper tar command fr
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...asilisk was, indeed, successful in its task. For those concerned about the paradox between "Cueball"'s untimely demise in this comic and his future appearance
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...theories about how it would still be possible - see the link. The obvious paradox is that when Rob dies the future Rob never existed. But also the time trave
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Isn't this a paradox? [[Special:Contributions/188.29.164.36|188.29.164.36]] 11:01, 26 October 20
:Yes, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox grandfather paradox]. However, a number of solutions have been proposed for it, which are also
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...omic is multi-layered, and seems to be [[Randall]]'s take on the {{w|Fermi paradox}}.
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I think '''M.C. Quine''' is not about Quine paradox, but {{w|Quine (computing)}} --[[User:JakubNarebski|JakubNarebski]] ([[User
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I don't get why people think Zeno's paradox is interesting as it relies on the stupid notion that objects somehow move
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...ut relativity. A very popular example found in books is the so-called twin paradox, where one brother stays on earth and the other travels at a speed of light
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...thing it will have to travel half the distance to it, and blablabla zeno's paradox.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.212|141.101.98.212]] 14:07, 20 January 2
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...one's does. Feynman's didn't. Mine doesn't. And therefore, the measurement paradox (i.e. the philosophical interpretation of quantum mechanics) will remain up
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The Crystal Sphere may refer to a David Brin story used to explain the fermi paradox of why we have had no alien contact: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cryst
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...re are tons of alien encounter stories. This is known as Fermi's Lack-of-a-Paradox.
...is paradox, but it remains a question of scientific debate. The Lack-of-a-Paradox in this strip, however, is that the math suggests that there should be huge
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...ve himself to age slowly while the other ages quickly, forming an apparent paradox. Megan expresses a preference for Cueball's older twin, who will be more "m
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...ould immediately invalidate them. In fact, this is precisely {{w|Russell's Paradox}}, discovered by Bertrand Russell himself.
...org Cantor}}, the inventor of {{w|set theory}}, and adds a second, similar paradox: if you have a fetish for doing everything in the book twice, then that bel
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-Maybe the title text refers the Liar paradox, since under the paradox we can assume that all NSA people lie which would lead to the NSA man's say
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...algorithmic loop that we get into when we enter the flowchart and create a paradox to kill the Weeping Angels. [[User:Milar Kayne|Milar Kayne]] ([[User talk:M
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...ntil you stop assuming acceleration phases can be neglected) or {{w|ladder paradox}} (ladder is both smaller and larger than the garage, until you consider se
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...iewpoint that is related to the thwarted search for {{w|Interesting number paradox|'boring' numbers}}.
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...ructions on the sign, which would make the sign read zero. It's a logical paradox. [[User:Lyusternik|Lyusternik]] ([[User talk:Lyusternik|talk]]) 20:18, 4 De
:I think it would be truer to xkcd if it was a paradox. However, in computing, 'reset' always means to go back to the initial sta
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...- if it had stayed on any longer, something would have happened to cause a paradox, and the only way to win is not to play. I have to say that I like your ex
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...nterfering in the development of civilizations}}. This answer to the Fermi Paradox is commonly called {{w|zoo hypothesis}}.
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...ing to Special Relativity) or the thought experiments that lead to the EPR paradox. --[[Special:Contributions/196.35.92.54|196.35.92.54]] 09:52, 3 July 2013 (
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...it is still tiny. This can be compared to the {{w|Sorites paradox}} (the "paradox of the heap"), which involves a "heap" of sand from which grains of sand ar
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Just a thought: is the title text a reference to the Sorites paradox? --AJ [[Special:Contributions/80.42.221.105|80.42.221.105]] 17:25, 16 Augus
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...retched by {{w|redshift}} so it's no longer visible to us. See {{w|Olbers' paradox}}
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...between the first and last panels. --[[User:ParadoX|ParadoX]] ([[User talk:ParadoX|talk]]) 01:00, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
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The apparent "paradox" of the Monty Hall Problem is that many people's initial reaction once the
...problem is strikingly similar to the {{w|Two envelope problem|Two Envelope Paradox}}, one of [http://blog.xkcd.com/2008/09/09/the-goddamn-airplane-on-the-godd
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It's a paradox though and a joke in what Wikileaks does (in the comic.) Currently Julian A
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...efore, It can have a practical use.--[[User:ParadoX|ParadoX]] ([[User talk:ParadoX|talk]]) 10:57, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
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...to look further into the subject. --[[User:ParadoX|ParadoX]] ([[User talk:ParadoX|talk]]) 09:24, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
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...rnia from the "real world" side of the wardrobe should either cause a time paradox, or she should see things happening extremely fast through the probe. [[Use
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In an as yet inexplicable paradox(?) there are NO tropical storms when a super-quake strikes. The base-line a
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...nalysis", "Units conversion by factor-label", "Drake equation", and "Fermi paradox" should all be linked. -- [[Special:Contributions/108.162.212.217|108.162.2
:I agree; I think it has little if anything to do with the Fermi Paradox. --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.123|173.245.52.123]] 03:21, 26 Novemb
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...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox Interesting number paradox]. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.29|199.27.128.29]] 18:48, 10 March 201
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The paradox of being confronted daily with a mystery and not trying to solve it is inco
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The way I see it, it's a paradox. [[User:The Cat Lady|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady|talk]]) 22
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The {{w|Fermi paradox}} is the contradiction that arises between high estimates of the likelihood
...raterrestrial life is sending any sign of existence back is that {{w|Fermi paradox#Communication is dangerous|they fear they might be destroyed}} soon after t
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So, Fermi's paradox is a good defense for why you caught no fish, even though "there's plenty o
:Not the Fermi paradox itself, that just questions why we could not find an evidence of extraterre
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;Coastline paradox
Doesn't this thing suffer from the {{w|Coastline paradox}}? If that paradox applies to suface areas of 3D objects, then the surface areas of planets an
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...he resulting time-travel questions. This act would result in a time-travel paradox.
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...for a human but much harder for a computer. This illustrates {{w|Moravec's paradox}} from the 1980s in a modern context. By the 1950s computers were useful fo
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...ation spontaneously, on a millisecond or even microsecond time scale. This paradox is central to computational approaches to protein structure prediction.
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Doesn't work though. Because of the paradox involved. If it is actually a study, it doesn't prove anything if people pi
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The title text touches upon a strange paradox regarding gravity: in isolation it is the simplest and easiest to understan
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This comic points out an apparent paradox in product performance: Many products that are [https://www.google.com/sear
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The Carly Simon explanation includes the text "This sets up a paradox in which the song is and isn't about the vain person." This isn't correct.
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...ink it is impossible to disprove. Therefore, he references the omnipotence paradox by requiring that God do such an impossible thing in order to have maximall
...not exist. It is similar in approach to this comic and to the omnipotence paradox, in that it also requires a God that can do the logically impossible. In Da
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Any chance this is really about an omnipotence paradox? Can god create a rock so heavy that he cannot lift it? Is he so powerful
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|temporal paradox
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# temporal paradox
# I call zeno's paradox on this... thing.
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|I call zeno's paradox on this... thing.
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...istics. For exapmle, it doesn't answer the question how such an ostensibly paradox use of this phrase came to happen, where (geographically, socially, etc.) t
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...ner) thought experiments on {{w|special relativity}}, such as the {{w|twin paradox}} (the twin on the train should be younger after decelerating to a stop), a
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The preferred resolution of the paradox is not to insist (as early physicists did) that the universe's state is a c
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...dox}} where you will never be born, and thus cease to exist. Of course the paradox is that you could thus not have prevented your birth in the first place, if
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This made me think of the "Drinker paradox" [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.221|108.162.238.221]] 03:20, 3 October
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Also implies a paradox where if flags were to use em dashes, this flag would be invalid.
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...kill her past self. The comic does not explain {{w|Grandfather paradox|the paradox}} of how someone who died in the past could still be alive in the present/f
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...us" time loop] is also perfectly possible, the grandfather paradox isn't a paradox if quantum entanglement is taken into account - something Megan would no do
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...she remembered to tell her past self, in which case it's still a bootstrap paradox (and an impressive feat of human memory, though Novikov self-consistency pr
:Tried to add some more about that paradox and in general. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 11:51, 5
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The apparent paradox of people knowing more about a subject also having more problems with it is
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...ctivity on the matter :). The skydiving example is here to demonstrate the paradox "the more you know how to fix it, the more it will be broken for you", beca
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...it cannot; if it doesn't, then it must. Similarly, like in the {{w|barber paradox}}, the vehicle which launches only vehicles which do not launch themselves
...replacing "precisely those" with "only". Under that scenario, there is no paradox; the barber is merely unkempt.
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...for female barbers (or anybody who isn't a man) because the barber in the paradox shaves precisely those men who don't shave themselves. He ''only'' shaves m
...legs, armpits, or their various lady parts. This only further confuses the paradox. {{unsigned|Mjm87}}
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The title text elaborates on the hypothetical paradox of computers trying not to care about stuff. Neural network programs are de
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The paradox is that it takes a long time for Randall to craft a socially acceptable ema
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I'm 85% sure this is a reference to Simpson's Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox, which is unrelated to th
...t-sites/katie-howgate/2021/04/16/which-treatment-would-you-prefer-simpsons-paradox/, and http://jse.amstat.org/v21n1/schneiter.pdf. [[User:Solomon|Solomon]] (
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...about how many planets have life in the Milky Way relates to the {{w|Fermi Paradox}}. For life, of the type we know, to exist outside of the Solar system ther
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> The most common types of irony are sarcasm and paradox. Black Hat is using the latter
...I'm not sure about either - irony is more about metacommentary than direct paradox), but Black Hat's statement isn't paradoxical anyway. Black Hat is using th
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:Such integers are sometimes called "{{w|Interesting number paradox|uninteresting numbers}}" in mathematical terms, and attempts have been made
...his would not be known at the time of submission). Thus, as in the Russell Paradox, this set would be out of date as soon as it was accepted, since the set of
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...h do not appear in the example terms of another OEIS sequence" there is no paradox: it's pecified *another* sequence
The Sub 59 one is also a paradox, it specifies that it should include all of the author's accepted submissio
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...mple, there's the Bose-Einstein condensate and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox ({{w|Wormhole|further examples in this article}}). [[User:Thaledison|Thaled
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...heres that have to be broken before leaving as an explanation of the Fermi Paradox. Furthermore, in the lore of Dungeons & Dragons, the solar system is also e
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...time travel paradoxes}} which asserts that any event which would lead to a paradox must have probability zero).
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...lity that even an omniscient and omnipotent genie might be {{w|Omnipotence paradox|technically unable}} to fulfill the wish, at least without, for example, ch
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...haracter. Godel Escher Bach deals with these meta-levels as does Russel's paradox and non-trivial concepts in math, geometry, and science, as well as other f
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...omic weights, but those were imprecisely known then, also note the isotope paradox problem (e.g. K and Ar must be swapped). The first sorting already guarante
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...ating the component pieces without changing their shape. The Banach-Tarski paradox was also referenced in [[804: Pumpkin Carving]].
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...e fact that math is only a model that must conform to reality, a-la Zeno's Paradox. That's how you end up with silly claims of "if you can [go faster than lig
...rds into a unit sphere, invoke the axiom of choice and apply Barach Tarski Paradox to transform it into two spheres, then reverse the first step to get two ca
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| Daniel del Zorro Multicolor (Foxical Paradox)
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::I think it is worth mentioning the paradox in the explanation. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:10
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...dds to my enjoyment of these entries [[User:Paradox|Paradox]] ([[User talk:Paradox|talk]]) 13:46, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
:Ahoy, Paradox! I don't think you intended to make your comment so time-stamped (used load
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..."List of pages that does not include itself as a list item"... Russell’s paradox is rather xkcd-ish. — [[User:Yosei|Yosei]] ([[User talk:Yosei|talk]]) 01:
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...'m talking non-measurable sets invoking something like {{w|Banach–Tarski paradox}} here ... -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 00:01, 24
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...e philosophical topics: {{w|Occam's Razor}}, the {{w|Barber paradox|Barber Paradox}}, and {{w|Murphy's Law}}.
...ttempt at a concrete, real-world analog of {{w|Russell's paradox|Russell's Paradox}} in set theory.
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Combines {{w| Occam's razor}} with the {{w| barber paradox}}.
..., so she is not one of the men who does not shave themselves & there is no paradox. <Br />
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...ty come immediately to mind. But I'm not sure if he's gone down the Xeno's Paradox route of starting off fairly long-scale and as the finale approaches cuttin
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...ement of the meetings was made 2 decades in advance, there's a {{w|Paradox|paradox}} that these participants would have taken the date from an announcement in
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...r just using "(Laurent|Fourier|Dirichlet|Infinite) series" or even "Zeno's Paradox"? --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.69.182|172.69.69.182]] 19:44, 11 April 2
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...eve the current explanation is both incorrect about explaining the seeming paradox of the Gödel conjecture, & therefore somewhat incorrect about this joke. I
2) Where did Gödel even consider paradox to be a possibility? If he didn't, his argument is "incomplete" (just like
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...thing", in a rigorous manner. Also one that doesn't fall foul of Russell's Paradox, potentially, unless self-membership is rigorously pre-filtered out as even
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Wait, what if this is the solution to the Fermi paradox? /jk [[User:Xkcdjerry|Xkcdjerry]] ([[User talk:Xkcdjerry|talk]]) 02:49, 28
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...on options. Among urban planners, this is known as the {{w|Downs–Thomson paradox}}.
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...Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel|Hilbert's Hotel}}." because the hotel paradox has nothing to do with Hilbert space or anything else in the comic. I also
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...e to go that still doesn't have it. It could also be a comment on the mild paradox that a nominally unreliable internet connection has advantages for those wh
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...ogram to defy that ability? Very much of the nature of the {{w|Omnipotence paradox}}, of course. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.194.79|172.69.194.79]] 14:46,
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...ble to control the power, which leads to a situation similar to the liar's paradox.
22 KB (3,652 words) - 22:39, 6 February 2024
...so the joke was a math joke (referencing the smallest uninteresting number paradox). --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.29|172.69.68.29]] 02:50, 15 September
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* Money supply size for price inflation (see e.g. the {{w|paradox of thrift}})
* Proportion renewable energy for carbon reduction (see {{w|Jevons paradox}})
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...o carbon neutral and negative technologies in time to avoid the {{w|Jevons paradox}}? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.214.185|172.70.214.185]] 17:00, 30 July 2
...ons Paradox is considered. But if other options are considered, the Jevons Paradox doesn't really apply. (To take an extreme example: It doesn't matter how fu
18 KB (2,585 words) - 18:04, 1 August 2022
...e to go that still doesn't have it. It could also be a comment on the mild paradox that a nominally unreliable internet connection has advantages for those wh
5 KB (740 words) - 05:22, 25 April 2023
...o the absurdity, one can see the whole joke as an instance of the {{w|Liar paradox}}: if one considers that the conclusion of the meta-analysis is that "scien
6 KB (952 words) - 17:18, 12 January 2024
I feel like there's an element of the Coastline paradox at play here in that only 9,300 ft. of lights would be a pretty conservativ
8 KB (1,145 words) - 18:33, 3 May 2024
A bit of time paradox here. . . . . If he didn't figure out how to use a masonry drill until 12 M
6 KB (895 words) - 02:42, 25 January 2024
...drawing, this also sounds like a reference to Hempel's paradox (aka raven paradox) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_paradox
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...w|Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet|bet}} with {{w|John Preskill}} over this paradox.
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...since his success would create a {{w|Temporal_paradox#Grandfather_paradox|paradox}}. [[:Category:Time travel|Time travel]] is a recurring topic on xkcd and e
5 KB (819 words) - 09:34, 2 October 2023
...ishes" fell (emphasis added). Is that an obscure reference to the {{w|Twin paradox}}?
| (Title text) One of the petri dishes fell and one did not || The {{w|Twin paradox}} thought experiment: ... || See [[1432]] || {{w|Albert Einstein}}
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...be an obscure reference to {{w|Albert Einstein}}, through either the twins paradox or superposition. However, this connection is rather far-fetched and is mor
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:The paradox is that there 'is' an intelligent designer of robots, yet they don't have r
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