Every Paradox in 8 Minutes

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Every famous paradox gets explained in 8 minutes.

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0:00 Grandfather Paradox
0:10 Achilles and the Tortoise
0:25 Ship of Theseus
0:34 Sorites Paradox
0:40 Barbershop Paradox
0:51 Catch-22
1:00 Fermi Paradox
1:05 Opposite Day Paradox
1:09 Simpsons' Paradox
1:20 Tolerance Paradox
1:31 Bootstrap Paradox
1:40 Stockdale Paradox
1:50 Jevons Paradox
2:00 Olbers' Paradox
2:05 Paradox of Thrift
2:14 Unexpected Hanging Paradox
2:34 Value Paradox
2:42 Pinocchio Paradox
2:53 Hedonism Paradox
3:00 Crocodile Paradox
3:20 Sword and Shield Paradox
3:26 Dichotomy Paradox
3:41 Fletcher Paradox
3:58 Grand Hotel Paradox
4:18 Card Paradox
4:30 Liar Paradox
4:38 Grain of Millet Paradox
4:51 Boltzmann Brain
5:02 Paradox of Enrichment
5:10 Service Recovery Paradox
5:18 Stability-Instability Paradox
5:30 Ironic Process Theory
5:41 Paradox of Choice
5:48 Birthday Paradox
6:02 Schrodinger's Cat
6:35 Twin Paradox
6:51 Friendship Paradox
7:00 Raven Paradox
7:13 Temperature Paradox
7:20 Interesting Number Paradox
7:30 Irresistible Force Paradox
7:36 Lottery Paradox
7:48 Preparedness Paradox

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helpfulprofessor.com/paradox-examples/
www.mentalfloss.com/article/59040/10-mind-boggling…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_paradox
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes

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All Comments (21)
  • Whats the paradox for getting in a comfortable spot to sleep in and then feeling the urge to move one of your limbs and then not being able to sleep comfortably.
  • @t___m
    A lot of paradoxes listed here: a) have linguuistic problems b) are underspecified c) are very similar to others
  • @curranzz9319
    I have concluded that some paradoxes are actually paradoxical, and others just purposefully ignore reality to be quirky.
  • @Anoth3r_Lozer
    My personal favourite: If you ask Rick Astley for a copy of the movie Up, he can’t give it to you, because he’s never gonna give you up. But in doing so, he lets you down, thus creating the Astley paradox.
  • @DiMeo_0908
    We need the “I am so comfortable that I don’t wanna get up to pee, but since I have to pee I’m uncomfortable” paradox
  • I think you missed the crux of the unexpected hanging paradox. The prisoner uses the logic you described to deduce that he’ll never be hanged because it can never be a surprise, but he ends up getting hanged on the Tuesday… much to his surprise.
  • @thatriverguy
    Most of these are on the level of "How me go place if place far away?" Nice paradoxes.
  • @Fantasticleman
    Tiredness paradox: Imagine being so tired, that you are too tired to be tired.
  • @nogusek5836
    Arent the sword a shield and unstopable force vs unmovable object the same paradoxes with just different concepts?
  • @bl_q
    This feels like the things you would think of if you had 4 hours of sleep in last 7 days
  • @astrid2432
    3:04 well the crocodile never says in what for state the child will be, if he eats the child, but spits out like bones, he did both things 3:54 well the arrow isn't a quantum object so it is always moving still
  • @spookykitty2327
    Paint Explainer Paradox: If every paradox is only half explained,
  • @hear-and-know
    A lot of paradoxes are solved when you stop attributing an underlying, unchanging "essence" to things
  • @parkernelson4909
    Here's a sort of paradox I saw: Benny doesn't fix the hole in his roof when it rains because it's too wet to work, but when it's not raining it doesn't need to be fixed
  • @F0RLORN
    Rick Astley Paradox: If you ask Rick Astley for a copy of the movie Up, he cannot give it to your as he's "never gonna give you up." However, by not giving you Up, he lets you down, which he also cannot do since he's "never gonna let you down."
  • Grand hotel is not really a paradox. It’s just how infinity works. Infinity is not a number, it’s a concept such that every number is smaller than it. Nor is birthday. That’s pure probability. The problem is people may not understand math well and thus find those counterintuitive and unbelievable. One common confusion is, we may think of “two people sharing a bday” in the same way as “someone shares my bday”. I’ve taken a college level probability course and still feels like that sometimes.
  • @Volt_Fortnite
    Dichotomy paradox is basically how one of gojos abilities works
  • @amoralmarker6503
    “Do we run duos because we suck at the game, or do we suck at the game because we run duos?”
  • A few of these paradoxes aren't actually paradoxes or have an explanation. Olbers' paradox in particular is solved beautifully through cosmology (and actually is one of the more intriguing suggestions that the universe might be expanding), the twins' paradox has actually been proven to be true (not with twins I think, but with extremely precise clocks) and Schrödinger's cat paradox is solved once you consider that the cat and the machine HAVE to be considered observers of the phenomenon occurring