What is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god?

Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 118 points –

The monotheistic all powerful one.

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There are two kinds of people in the world - those who think there are two kinds of people in the world and those who know better.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world — those who understand binary and those who don’t.

There are 2 kinds of people in the world.

  1. Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

there are 10 kinds of people.

  • those who understand binary
  • those who don't
  • those who know ternary exists

There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

I think this one is easily solved: the person saying it is in the first group.

Right, but it's not a paradox - it's a conundrum. It's not just that the person saying it is part of the first group, but that they necessarily are.

Since people want to believe that they "know better," there's a strong urge to count oneself among the second group, which immediately places one in the first.

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