#paradox — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #paradox, aggregated by home.social.
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#Paradox examples:
1/ our hero's can think we are attacking them when we're trying to help them
(e.g. offer suggestions or point out some possibilities to improve things)2/ when we get close to people (online or offliine) we can start to critique or attack them (with our words) which is a kind of complement because we think they are ~80% perfect and think "if they only did this then they could 'save the planet' etc "...
3/ in reality many people are just as flawed as us.
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Ah, the classic "Europe is shrinking while growing" paradox! 🚀✨ Who knew the secret to urban development was simply to have fewer people? 🤔🥂 Maybe next time they'll discover water is wet. 💧🏙️
https://correctiv.org/en/europe/2026/04/21/half-of-europes-towns-and-villages-have-fewer-residents-than-60-years-ago/ #EuropeShrinkingGrowing #UrbanDevelopment #Paradox #Urbanization #Trends #SocialCommentary #HackerNews #ngated -
“All is change”*…
If all of the parts of a ship are sequentially replaced over time, is the resulting ship the same ship as the original? (source)The Wikipedia article on the Ship of Theseus has changed entirely since its inception.
A paradoxical thought experiment made meta: “The Same Boat,” from Greg Ross in his wonderful blog, Futility Closet.
* Euripedes, Heracles (and others, e.g., Marcus Aurelius, echoing Heraclitus)
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As we contemplate conundra, we might recall that it was on this date in 1971 that the mix was completed on David Bowie’s “Changes,” which had been recorded nine days earlier at Trident Studios in London. Co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott, it featured Rick Wakeman on piano and the musicians who would later become known as the Spiders from Mars—Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder and Mick Woodmansey.
“Changes” is widely considered to be one of Bowie’s best songs and has appeared on many best-of lists. His biographers have suggested that the track is a manifesto of his entire career, predicting a constant change of musical styles: the first verse focuses on the compulsive nature of artistic reinvention and distancing oneself from the rock mainstream; the second verse concerns clashes between children and their parents, urging them to allow their children to be themselves as teenagers. Bowie frequently included the song in his live performances; it was the final song he performed on stage before his death in 2016.
See Bowie perform it here.
#Changes #culture #DavidBowie #FutilityCloset #GregRoss #history #music #paradox #philosophy #ShipOfTheseus #thoughtExperiment #Wikipedia -
Most people don't want to harm #animals or the #climate but also eat #meat. They use subconscious #coping strategies to reduce cognitive #dissonance caused by this #paradox. Dairy-related coping strategies overlap—with the added justification that #dairy is “neglectable”: doi.org/10.1007/s410...
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New post on me blog:
Can #God do the impossible?
https://far.chickenkiller.com/religion/can-god-do-the-impossible/A short note about the omnipotent paradox, liar's paradox and our binary logic.
#paradox #philosophy #logic #post #blogpost #religion #omnipotence #logical_paradox
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Newsflash
I have developed an uncanny ability to tell, from a person's avatar alone, whether they're likely to be anti-artificial intelligence.
A paradox: there is, too often for my liking, something unnervingly artificial about the avatars that are chosen by anti-AI protesters.
Methinks they doth protest too much.
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@Beggarmidas I think of the next generation of children as the next adults.
It's been hard because children are attached to parents - of which most are too busy / overwhelmed or want to stay oblivious / not be against the #system.
So I'm in a locked #paradox;
Adults don't want to listen and children hardly can / can't implement it because adults have such an inherited lock on environment.
This is why I appeal to social engine developers to make it part of their mission. <Is that a good idea?
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@argv_minus_one Ah, this attitude I find as the problem.
Taking care of the planet and people is part of our nature otherwise it leaves it too open into other people's hands (not your fault but #paradox of life is leaving it to others = #irresponsible).
So without big judgement, if you are not interested in saving the planet even 50% - then that is part of the overall problem.
This then goes back to Trumps Musks running riot because people leave it to others or write off "saving the planet".
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Alcohol Flips the Sleep-Memory Script: Why a Nightcap May Sabotage What You Want to Remember
https://1ban.news/alcohol-paradox-sleep-memory-drosophila/
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#Paradox - the last 500 years scientists have invented lenses to see bigger and smaller things like out into the #solar system and into a #cell. Say the path of lens invention continues, is it likely that scientists might develop even better lenses that reveal more about matter and space, and if this continued, we might see things infinitely tinier than the cell? At least bigger than the Milky Way though. We agree that space might not end anywhere. But what if it goes infinitely smaller as well?
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here’s a #paradox to consider: over the last 500 years or so humans have developed lenses that allowed them to see increasingly bigger and smaller things like out into the #solar system and into a #cell. I believe that #infinity exists in both directions. Out into space and into the cell. No lens will be enough to see the end of it or comprehend. no better lenses will be developed because humanity is about to die off. Also, it’s just a paradox.
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Ever notice how two things can seem like total opposites, yet both are completely true at the same time? Life loves a good paradox.
A couple of classic examples:
Light is both a wave and a particle. In physics, depending on how you measure it, light behaves like continuous ripples in water and like tiny individual packets of energy. It threw scientists for a loop, but both are fundamentally true.You can deeply love someone and also be incredibly annoyed by them. Human emotion isn't a zero-sum game. Holding space for gratitude and frustration simultaneously is just part of the messy human experience.
Truth isn't always an "either/or"—a lot of the time, it's a "both/and."
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The War in Heaven is all but decided! Last Pinnacle stream, come on by!
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"Der Sprung ins kühle Nass birgt jedoch gesundheitliche Risiken wie den Kälteschock oder Kreislaufprobleme. Dementsprechend hoch ist heuer bereits die Zahl tödlicher Badeunfälle. In diesem Jahr kamen bereits 25 Menschen ums Leben."
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> Chinese: wǒ bú huì shuō zhōnɡ wén.
> Japanese: nihongo ga dekimasen.
> German: Ich spreche nicht Deutsch.
> Spanish: No hablo español.— A curated list of examples of the liar's paradox adjacent sentence "I do not speak [this language]" by mathematician Joel David Hamkins
Chinese is SVO much like English, so wǒ, huì shuō, zhōnɡ wén are meant to stand for I, speak, Chinese with (不,bú) being the negation of “no/not.”
Indeed, 「我不會說中文。」is the output of Google Translate when you ask for a translation of “I do not speak Chinese.” Personally, I find 中文 easier to write than to communicate orally in isolation. Because Chinese is properly written with a brush, it is not the shape of the letters but the high-dimensional space of brush movements that connects the printed, semi-cursive, and full-cursive forms, so stroke order is vitally important.
Chinese is a pitched language which means the rising and falling of the tone of each syllable is vital to spoken communication. Mandarin here has four main syllabic pitches: high, falling, rising, and falling and then rising. Thus the markers on the vowels are pitch marks, not stress accents.
But there are a lot of different characters. So there are same-tone homophones like 財 (fortune, wealth, assets) and 才 (talents). The right side of the first character resembles the second — not a coincidence, but also not a reliable predictor of pronunciation.
Due to cultural norms, 我愛你。(wǒ ài nǐ, I love you), while a perfectly grammatical sentence is culturally unacceptable to speak aloud to someone in public. Thus in Chinese it is possible to speak something perfectly but also completely wrong. ⇒⇐
Therefore, Chinese does not exist. □
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Reject AI! (Also them: ‘Hey Siri, remind me to reject AI’)
#ai #irony #technology #satire #humor #modernlife #digital #protest #society #innovation #paradox #thoughtful #design #visualart #techculture #reflection #awareness #smarttech #automation #critique
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Say No to AI — But Yes to My Smart Fridge! (100% human-approved)
#ai #irony #technology #smarttech #convenience #digitalart #future #society #satire #humor #innovation #modernlife #paradox #techtrends #design #visualart #perspective #automation #consumerism #reflection
