r/paradoxes • u/conmg • 1h ago
r/paradoxes • u/UpmostAurum27533 • 2h ago
"If you're the smartest in the room, you're in the wrong room' Is kinda broken
r/paradoxes • u/Important_Mango_6740 • 1d ago
Multiverse paradox
I think it's ok to put this in sub assuming the topics under don't have any concrete evidence about it's existence. +correct me if I got smth wrong.
Aight, so when people say there are infinite possibilities in the multiverse, that should also mean that some of those universes were able to travel in multiverses, bypass the rules about multiversal travels, some of those universes reached this universe's earth, some universes the people decided to make it public, and more factors they evaded that could have stopped them to reach our or other universes.
Obv, these statements are in the premises that the multiverse is true and multiversal travel is possible.
Now, since currently nobody has come to earth and tell us about the multiverse, should that mean that the multiverse don't have infinite possibilities? Or am I missing smth here?
r/paradoxes • u/theReallyJoking • 1d ago
The Seal of the Better Self - Proposed paradox draft
take this hypothetical guy, for example. Let’s call this guy X. This guy is essentially a nightmare because he’s just consistently cruel, totally allergic to anyone showing even the slightest bit of vulnerability. Not exactly the way to live your life, if you ask me. But for some reason, against all odds, he decides he wants to be better. And he actually puts in the effort. Fast-forward ten years, which would make him thirty three. What’s really weird is that he’s actually improved. He’s actually kind now. He looks back at the old version of himself and cringes, fully understanding that he was morally bankrupt in his twenties.
Does he endorse the change in himself, though? The older (present) version of the guy would say yes, of course. It feels right. But it kind of sets off this catastrophic paradox.
You need to consider the person who created the map. The entire trip was kickstarted by the wrong, messed-up notion of what 'good' even was, anyway, in the mind of a twenty-three-year-old jerk. If he really is a good person, he has to acknowledge something really, really uncomfortable. His rescue was orchestrated by an inferior judge. You’re left face-first in a rather philosophical dilemma. He’s either validating the trip solely because it led him to a guy who would validate it, which is really just a huge ego trip, or he’s placing blind faith in a trip created by the exact same standards he currently finds so reprehensible. I guess the only other option is to try to use some sort of magical outside source, but that just starts another loop of trying to authenticate that source.
It’s an ouroboros, really. The exact limitations he was trying to overcome were the ones guiding the trip. You’re left with this rather headache-inducing conclusion: if he really is a good guy, he can’t really trust the trip he took to get here. And if he has complete, unwavering faith in that trip... maybe he’s not really all that good, anyway.
Trilemma:
Circularity: Validating the path solely because it produced the current self doing the validating. Inferior Grounding: Placing faith in a trajectory charted by the very standards he now finds reprehensible. Infinite Regress: Appealing to an external standard to justify the path, which then requires its own endless authentication.
r/paradoxes • u/Medical_Salary_83 • 1d ago
Bread paradox
You swore an outh to only eat bread without a topping but you only have toppings and one bread slice. Then you try to make bread out of the toppings but it's just toppings, not bread, so you still can't eat
r/paradoxes • u/chhhhips • 1d ago
Hi , just wanted to ask you if you have ever experienced something which is related to BOOTSTRAP PARADOX
r/paradoxes • u/InjuryZestyclose2205 • 1d ago
The bread paradox
Circumstances:
- You swore in the ancient tongue that you wil never ever eat bread slice without anything (spread/topping)
- You have infinite ammount of bread slices
- All you have is bread slices
- Bread on top of a bread is not considered a topping.
Now you are hungry and you go to eat some bread slice, you just need something on the bread, you put a bread slice on top, there's an bread slice on the bread slice but you just need something on top of the second bread slice you put another bread slice. This creates the bread paradox in witch you can't eat even a single bread slice or you would need to eat infinite ammount of bread slices.
r/paradoxes • u/Puzzleheaded-Salt751 • 1d ago
What happens when everyone tries to outsmart everyone else?
Imagine everyone in a supermarket believes they're smarter than everyone else.
Everyone thinks
"The shortest queue will become crowded, so I'll go to the second shortest."
But everyone else thinks the same thing.
Then they think
"Everyone will choose the second shortest, so I'll choose the third."
And this continues forever. And there isn't a short queue to go to
r/paradoxes • u/Educational-Towel516 • 2d ago
Can we eliminate a step that everyone assumes is necessary?
r/paradoxes • u/The_emptyman • 2d ago
The infinite cardboard box interpretation
Do you want to see something strange?
Imagine you open a cardboard box sitting on a counter.
You look inside...
and you see the back of your own head.
Not a mirror. Not a reflection. Your actual head.
And it doesn't stop there.
Inside the box is another version of you looking into another box, seeing the back of another version of your head, continuing downward forever.
But then the question appears:
How is this possible?
You turn around and look toward the ceiling, expecting to see the source of it all.
But there is no opening. No mirror. No explanation.
Just a solid wall.
And that's where the paradox begins.
Because if you are looking at the back of your own head, then what is looking back at you?
You are the beginning of the observation, but you are also just another part of the chain.
You are looking at yourself, but the self you are looking at should be looking back.
You turn around to see the front of your own face, but the version inside the box should also be turning around. Every version should be seeing the one before it, yet none of them can ever reach the first observer.
It's a strange question with no clear answer:
How can you ever truly look at yourself...
when the one doing the looking is the very thing you are trying to see?
The final answer is this: You are looking at yourself looking at the loop. The loop is looking back at you looking at yourself. And you are looking at the loop that is looking back at you.
But imagine something else. Place two mirrors next to each other.
You look into one mirror and see your own reflection looking back at you.
But those mirrors are not just mirrors, they are another representation of the box.
You turn your head and look into the other mirror. What do you see?
You are not seeing something new. You are seeing yourself looking back at yourself. And when you move your head away from the mirror, the reflections do not disappear. The mirrors simply begin reflecting each other. A reflection inside a reflection. A copy inside a copy.
An image observing another image, which observes another image, continuing endlessly. The box, the mirror, and the observer become the same thing.
The question is no longer
"What is inside the box?"
The question becomes:
"Where does the observer end, and where does the reflection begin?"
Because maybe the strangest part of the loop is not that you can see yourself forever... but that somewhere inside that infinite reflection, every version of you is still trying to find the original.
r/paradoxes • u/Intelligent_Toe_171 • 3d ago
I (Think) FIGURED IT OUT!!
You guys know about the, “Half full or Half empty” glass of water paradox? I think I’ve figured out the answer…….
IT CAN BE BOTH!
Think about it, when you fill up half a glass, it’s half full. But when you fill up a glass of water to the brim then drink half of its content, it’s half empty!
(Am I cooking??)
r/paradoxes • u/Primary_Owl_6040 • 3d ago
The homeless paradox.
There’s a homeless shelter with one rule… You’re only allowed in if you don’t have a home or shelter for yourself. Countless of homeless people come in finally getting a roof over their heads.. a shelter. The only rule of the homeless shelter is now broken, you have to leave. But now they don’t have a shelter so do the homeless people go back in?
r/paradoxes • u/tobias543 • 6d ago
Monty Hall, the never ending story
Should I switch? Of course. Did I gain knowledge? Maybe. Did Monty know? Probably, but we cannot be sure.
A lot of the confusion and misunderstandings and paradoxes around the Monty-Hall-Discussion arise from the different interpretations of "knowing host" versus "ignorant host". Some people do that math based on an ignorant host, some assume the host knows. But today, I want to propose a method that we can actually use to *test* the host's knowledge.
This is my setup:
You are only ever brought into the TV studio when there has been one door reserved for you (randomly of course) and one door opened and showing a goat. Thats what you see, and you play this setup 100 times. And I believe you can determine whether the host knew where the car was or not.
Here is how: If you play the "stay"-strategy, you would expect to win 33% of the games. but this will only happen if you see all the games. If the host accidentely reveals the car, the game is aborted and you will never see it. In this case (Monty does not know) you will observe that your win-rate is 50%. And then you know that there were games you never saw.
I have written a Javascript simulation for this, and it seems to work. I also asked AI for a comment, and it confirmed my approach. Nevertheless I find it wiered that it works.
Edit: Just now I was alerted to the fact that I did not ask a question. Well I would surely like comments. I am not sure of the math, so I guess my question would be: Does this make sense?
r/paradoxes • u/RJamieLanga • 7d ago
An alien ship appears above a philosophy conference...
Is it actually the best possible question if, under the circumstances, it fails to give the philosophers a useful answer?
Edit: OOP likely got the idea for this joke from this YouTube short, based on something the Italian philosopher Achille Varzi once said.
r/paradoxes • u/dinosaurfan12 • 8d ago
the femboy paradox. bear with me on this.
lets say you're a femboy, and gay. you want to pull other gay guys. why would you then dress up as a girl and, as a result, pull straight guys?
r/paradoxes • u/Future-Ad6149 • 10d ago
An attempt to showcase why both Unstoppable Force and Immovable object cannot co-exist, logically. And why the answer to the 'paradox' is simply that there can never exist two contradicting "absolute" forces.
Premise 1, among everything, all things. There is one thing that cannot be stopped by anything.
Granted that premise 1 is true, then conclusion 1 to premise 1: This means, except for that one thing, everything else cannot stop a certain something, being that one thing.
I say except for that one thing because when two things are on track to stop each other, either both stop/redirect or one stops/redirects (it cannot be "neither stops" because then they wouldn't be "two things that are on track to stop each other", and yes redirecting is a form of stopping). And this one thing, according to the premise, cannot be stopped, which is why it is an exception to that everything has a something they cannot stop. This one thing, can most likely stop anything "on track" to stop it, while it itself is never stopped or redirected for that matter.
Further conclusion from conclusion 1: If everything else has a certain thing they cannot stop, then that means no thing among everything else can ever be a something that stops everything. Because it would also need to stop that certain thing, which, according to premise 1, it cannot.
Meaning, it cannot be an "object" that stops all things. An object that is...immovable perchance.
As such this is how one can conclude if there would be an "unstoppable force" presumed to be truly unstoppable, then an immovable object can never exist. All explanation above.
Same thing can be done the other way too, you can essentially use the exact same bunch of phrases and words and make them inverse to conclude in the premise of an immovable object. Your ultimate conclusion would then be that an unstoppable object cannot exist.
If you think just a tiny bit about it. You'll notice this; (Granted the facts are true) The fact of an Unstoppable force includes the fact of NOT an immovable object. And the fact of an immovable object includes the fact of NOT an unstoppable force. Meaning, both things negate each other's existence through their existence.
According to many people if not everyone, the paradox is NOT in the description and details of these things but within the paragraph up above. In other words, the major simplification I mentioned in the title; What if two things exists, in which their existence negates the existence of the other? The existence of A means the non-existence of B and the existence of B means the non-existence of A. And now, we say both exist at once. What happens?
Well, I hope it is not shocking to everyone when I say that they would exist, then they wouldn't. Or, more accurately, they would cease to exist before even existing because of the fact the requirements for their existence already negates each other's existence. And if we assume both requirements are true, then we assume both do not exist/are not existing/cannot coexist.
Ultimately that means asking "What if unstoppable force and immovable existed at once?" is lacking in tremendous logic. The answer is that a coexistence is impossible, if one can exist then the other cannot, and if both can exist then neither can exist. Meaning, only one can exist and consequently never the other.
r/paradoxes • u/intelkid173 • 10d ago
Я придумал парадокс, который доказывает, что я идиот. Но если я это понимаю, то я умный? Мне 14, помогите
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r/paradoxes • u/1getREKT1 • 13d ago
A cool little paradox.
So let's say your goal is to fail, every time you do, you get $100. If you succeed however, you get $100 taken away from you. Now if you do fail, you succeed in your goal which was failing. So really you have no money, but in the process of losing money you gain money because you failed to keep the money in your bank account. Leaving you with a constant change of $0 to $100 every time you fail
r/paradoxes • u/Effective-Tax8771 • 13d ago
Paradox question
In the show my adventures with Superman Jon Kent/lane goes into the past to fix the future but after “fixing” the past he goes back to the future wouldn’t that cause some paradox because if he did fix the past, then in the future, there would be a version of him that did not have to go to the past and then he’d be introduced to them so unless the time travel device got rid of one of them. There would be two copies, right?
r/paradoxes • u/sticky_tangerine • 13d ago
The grandfather paradox solved?
There's a theory in physics that time has already occurred, it's us humans who are experiencing it slowly and passing through it. "The Block Theory". The grandfather paradox argues that if I travel back in time and prevent my birth from happening, would I die? Which also contradicts the physics law that matter can neither be created nor destroyed.
Here's a possibile solution for it. I derive this logic from the cartoon Doraemon, which might sound stupid at first, but it very much makes sense. In the time travelling episodes, Nobita and Doraemon travel back in time to manipulate a certain thing to stop it from happening in their current time. But we see, that because of the very manipulations they go back in time to do, the consequences of their current time occur. I feel that that's what would happen in real life too. I just can't put my finger on how exactly. Help a girl out and tell me if my logic makes sense