r/paradoxes

If the truth teller was asked what the random god answer to a known question like is the sky blue what would the truth teller say.

The Pinocchio statement is being interpreted incorrectly. People assume that something must happen when, in fact, nothing would happen.

What Pinocchio said "My nose is going to grow" can ultimately be either true or false, but that doesn't automatically make it a truth or a lie. He is simply making a statement about the future, basically making a prediction.

If he genuinely doesn't know what is going to happen, and his prediction turns out to be wrong, then he was simply wrong or mistaken. He didn't necessarily lie, because lying requires you to knowingly or intentionally say something that you believe to be false.

For example, if I tell someone, "He is just a shy guy" even though I already know that he is actually an extrovert, then I am lying because I know the reality and deliberately say the opposite.

But Pinocchio is in a different situation. He doesn't know whether his nose is going to grow. He is simply making a prediction about something he cannot know in advance. So if his prediction turns out to be false, that doesn't mean he lied. His nose wouldn't grow because he neither lied nor intentionally said something false , he simply made a statement about something that hadn't happened yet.

It's basically the same as saying something like, "My nose is red," "My nose is bleeding," or "The weather is fine." If you don't know whether those statements are true or false at the time you say them, being wrong doesn't automatically make you a liar.

So I think the whole paradox comes from treating a false statement and a lie as the same thing, when they aren't necessarily the same

Not even the odd numbering of 366 being 100% and 50% being 23 people, but the entirety of this paradox seemingly implies that any of the other people in said group all have different birthdays.

Maybe Im confused, but for a 100% chance of someone to have the same birthday as you isn’t depending on how many people there are but simply depending on whether or not someone shares that birthday.

I don't understand Two boxers' thinking, it's clear that Box B should be taken since it's guaranteed because the predictor is assumed to be never wrong. Is it about free will? Not trusting the predictor?

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What if the dimensions we use to understand reality are not inherently ordered the way we've assumed? What if what we call horizontal and vertical, cause and effect, observer and observed, were simply orientations imposed by our perspective? If we reversed them, would reality itself change, or would we merely discover that what we thought was “up” was never inherently up at all? What if the map isn't wrong, but our assumption about which way the map should be facing is?

A motivational paradox called the top 1 paradox.

The idea is that no matter who you are, you’ll be top 1 at something. You are the absolute best at it.

However, you can also be top 1 at being not top 1 at anything (if you know what I mean).

But if you're top 1 at not being top 1, then you're top 1 at something, which means you can't be top 1 at nothing.

This creates an infinite paradox which leads to you always being top 1. Because let's say at loop 1, you're so 'un' top 1 at everything that you're even unable to be top 1 at being not top 1. But that just makes you top 1 at being unable to be top 1 of being unable to be top 1.

So no matter what, you'll always be top 1 at something.

Lets say you are the gaurd for an culprit who got arrested for a theft case ,lets say he got 9 months prison time . While in the prison timing he says to you (gaurd for that crimnal) that he will murder anyone at sight after the moment he got released .but you don't have any proof of him saying that . What would you do as a gaurd , whether you do your duties not saving the innocent life or try to save innocent life by avoiding laws .

(If you try to follow him ,he will kill only when he reached near an innocent person,also you can't arrest before that since it's against law)(also you can't let the innocent die)(morally)

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Hey everyone, I’ve been brainstorming a few unsettling ideas across different subjects that have been messing with my head lately. I wanted to drop them here to see what you guys think, or if anyone has a solid way to disprove them.

Language:

If words only mean what we agree they mean, and no two people feel or picture a word in the exact same way, can we ever actually communicate? Or are we all completely isolated in our own heads, just guessing what other people mean when they speak?

Math (Is it even real?):

Since math is just a system of rules humans invented, how do we know numbers actually describe real universe truths, and aren't just a clever game we made up that happens to make sense to us?

Math (Infinite time):

If probability says that anything with even a tiny chance will eventually happen if time goes on forever, doesn't that mean every single nightmare or terrible scenario mathematically has to happen to us at some point if time never ends?

Tech / Reality:

If our thoughts are just electrical signals, how can anyone prove that life isn't just a computer simulation that turned on five seconds ago with fake memories already loaded into our heads?

Biology:

If our brains swap out almost all their molecules every few years, our physical brain isn't even made of the same stuff it was when we were little. Are we still the same person, or are we just a new copy carrying someone else's old memories?

Psychology:

If a brain injury or a simple chemical imbalance can completely change a person's personality and moral beliefs overnight, does a real "core self" even exist, or are we just trapped by whatever state our brain chemistry happens to be in?

History:

Every past civilization thought they were super advanced and moral, but we look back at them now and find so much of what they did horrific. What totally normal things are we doing right now that people 200 years from now will look back on with absolute disgust?

Physics:

If the universe is infinite, basic math says there are infinite copies of us in space right now. Wouldn't that mean exact copies of you are going through horrific stuff this exact second?

Curious to hear what you guys think—which one bothers you the most, or can anyone actually poke a hole in these?

Small thought experiment: Imagine you had a supercomputer into which you could input the exact parameters of the Big Bang, to simulate a clone of the universe. You then fast-forward to 2026 and look a bit into the future. There you see that in a week you will win the lottery with the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4. However, just out of principle, you decide to enter 1, 2, 3, 5 instead.
But shouldn't the supercomputer actually calculate that you will change your mind, and would therefore directly show you 1, 2, 3, 5, whereupon you would change it back to 1, 2, 3, 6? Are you then in an infinite loop, or does the computer simply hide the results from you?
The same applies to an accident: You check when you will have an accident, and see that in two weeks you drive into a tree. So you decide not to drive a car on that day. However, the computer should have already taken into account that you are using it and therefore change your mind, so it shows you that you won't have an accident.
Would that then be the case with every accident? Do you thereby unconsciously cause no accidents anymore, or do they still happen? Or does the computer only show you what would happen and not what will happen? In other words: It tells you that you would normally die on that day, but you won't, because the computer warned you.
This principle applies to every single one of your decisions, as soon as you are in possession of such a computer. Do you have a solution to this problem?

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