My favorite paradox is the Astley paradox: If you ask Rick Astley to give you the movie “Up”, he will not give it to you because he is never gonna give you Up. However by not giving you Up, even though you asked for it, he is letting you down.
Paul’s Existence The owner’s statement sidesteps this problem by his statement that the customer, regardless of if the customer is lying, wrong, or telling the truth, he will always take their statement as true. The customer’s logical statement is not evaluated for truth or false; it can only be true in his eyes because he refuses to take it as anything but true. Software can be programmed to do this exact thing simply by making a scripted function return either a true or false value always regardless of input.
@@bruxinth4660 that statement is often made without much thought. There are always limitations on what a business owner will tolerate from customers. As a taxi driver, I know that sometimes the customer is dead wrong, and needs to get on out.
@@kaushikisaxena2026 The complete loss of memory caused by a sudden trauma that was, itself, also forgotten. It is a meme from a series called Community
Nothing because he became a real boy in the disney version, dead in the grimm brothers version (attempted suicide i believe), and assuming this paradox is in your mind then you will never know thus causing nothing to happen.
The Achilles and the Tortoise one seems pretty simple to me even without the infinite-to-finite explanation ngl Achilles can beat the tortoise in the race because he isn't trying to reach the tortoise, he's trying to reach the goal. And since the goal isn't moving, he should reach it before the turtle
In another way, all Achilles needs to do is go to the place where the tortoise will be in the time duration he will reach that point then he can easily overtake it
@@kababuo1989 I mean theoretically if it were a 1km race and the Tortoise had a 100m headstart while sprinting 6m/min while Achillies was running at 633m/min (or 38km/hr), we can calculate that it would take the tortoise 150 minutes while Achillies would take just over a minute and a half. Obviously this isn't wasn't the point of the Falsidical Paradox but simple algebra (by today's standard) and calculus makes quick work of it
I think the paradox is not that in the CONCLUSION of the proof "Achilles cannot catch up to the tortoise" as we (and even Zenon) knew it was wrong. The paradox lies (or rather lied) in the why Zenon PROOF is, in fact, not a proof of this conclusion.
@indisou well then just for that case, Zeno also had given us the Arrow paradox, in that even with a stationary goal, the subject (Achilles or an arrow) wouldn't be able to get there, since first it would need to reach the half-way point, then the middle between that and the goal, then the next middle, and so on. For infinity. :-B
Think he's over complicating it... Paradox is as he says... Distinct from.... Our opinion SO it IS a mind teaser because one has an opinion about an outcome (like the tortoise example) that turns out to be "incorrect" ie: Distinct from.. Our opinion!! Of course until its solved...if it ever is 🥴
The breakdown explained what one is however as new information is taken in about the subject the viewers perspective shifts(presumably speaking) meaning shift of opinion so if a paradox is something that does not coincide with the opinion then learning what a paradox really is in terms of definition could clarify or create a "new" paradox for the observer/viewer/etc. (confusion) could be wrong but hey what are comments n forums for if not to learn debate etc.
@@nathanevans.se1668 oh. Well that's just a issue with that words connotation. Possible and impossible are just variations of the same word, so no. It's either possible or impossible. What he's trying to say is like saying " if everything has color, can something be colorless?". The answer is no, it's one or the other.
I have watched several videos of his now, and I have to say, his best quality as a presenter, is the "go with the flow" and improv he does. He is great at it
Yeti Man not necessarily a paradox, “it’s” is extremely ambiguous to the point where it’s prima facie doubtful that the statement “it’s Opposite Day” possesses truth-value at all (propositional content), making it possibly unfit to be called a paradox at all, as opinions are nearly always supported by propositional content. In other words, it is quite possibly impossible for you to authentically hold the opinion “it’s Opposite Day” in any useful, communicative sense.
Watching a video like this always makes me want to own a whiteboard. Then, I remember that all of my math courses are behind me, and I would never ever use it.
Johnny Pope considering entering the contest doesn’t guarantee a win or loss, I would have to answer I do not know. I don’t know what happened after entering the contest.
>get to choose the envelope >one million dollars or globglogabgalab >sweat dripping down body >palms also sweaty >knees weak >moms lasagna >choose one after a while >please please please please >one million dollars in the other envelope >it's the globglogabgalab >YES >i won
Hey Kevin, i just watched through some of your old videos to be surprised by a new one right now, what a wonderful day. Originally i wanted to write this comment under your other vids but here the chance is higher you see it. Just wanted to say thank you. Your videos are by itself interesting but the way you tell them, especially the ones about the color blue, dragons and the planet behind our eyes are so unbelievably inspiring for me and move me deep down. I just can't put it into words im getting goosebumps by your last sentences of every video. i don't know if i overinterpret but when i think about your words and your sentence the way you said it etc. i eventually get the true meaning behind that and as well in music and in speech thats what i think is the most entertaining. just like suddenly understanding a mathematical equation for me it's so satisfying to grasp the meaning of something someone said. in addition to this brilliant music and the way you tell us about that topic you create not just a piece of work but imho a piece of art that at least for me touches me emotionally. So thank you so much for your inspiring videos and please never stop doing it because if you were i probably wouldn't enjoy to learn anymore at least not as much as i do with your truly magnificient videos. Thank you
when you hit that question and music at 1:25 my brain went into full vsauce inspiration mode, a continued thanks for watering the seedling of my mind 🙏🙏🙏
What would happen if Pinocchio said "my nose will now grow"? It wouldn't grow, but because it doesnt grow, it counts as a lie, but then since it's a lie, it does grow, making "my nose will now grow" the truth. But since its the truth, it shouldn't have grown? You get me?
MIKO maybe if it ran in a cycle like when u just read the comment in an order but technically it would all happen at the same time so would it just not do anything because he’s lying but then not lying at the same time
I find a better version of zeno's paradox theory is this: Imagine you're a runner in a race, to get to the end you need to get to the halfway point, to get to that halfway point you need to go to the halfway point of that, and then the halfway point of that halfway point, ext. It will go on forever, but we can't run for an infinite amount of halfway but somehow we do. I find that way easier than the archilles and the tortoise one.
The classic calculus example is shooting an arrow at a target. How long will it take to reach the target? Divide the distance traveled in half. It has taken some amount of time to travel the first half. Now divide the second half of the distance in half again. Again the first part takes some amount of time to be added. We can keep dividing the distance left to travel in increasingly smaller parts which all take some small amount of time. An infinite amount of distances to travel that each take a bit of time must add up to an infinite time. Now just use the idea of limits. As x goes to infinity y goes to 1 so y=1
This isn’t a parallel because at a point your halfway point is so small you physically have nothing that can parallel its size. Even when you reach the smallest building blocks of our earth(atoms). You would still be theoretically one atom away from the finish line. And from there on there is no way to reach another halfway point. Because there is nothing in between that atom and the atom making up the finish line it is obvious you would finish the race.
Just have to say what an amazing video. It's really hard to keep ones attention with these kind of videos but you've done it perfectly. Hope to see more videos like this !
@@noeruchangd ow yeah, when i watched him one of his videos i thought the same and wanted to comment about it but later on i watch more and totally forgot about that lol
I know there are probably too many comments saying that, but I have to add on to that : it's a work of art, your video, Kevin, I wish you all the best!
My favourite two... The Motorway Sign Paradox While travelling on a motorway in the UK I passed an electronic sign which had "SIGN NOT IN USE" displayed... The Blank Page Paradox When reading a document and you turn a page to reveal the next, which has "THIS PAGE HAS BEEN LEFT BLANK INTENTIONALLY" printed on it...
@@Morgan-oq7uj You're right, if there's a p chance that a given tape would tear, the chance that at least one would tear would be p + (1-p) * p + (1-p) * (1-p) * p (the chance that the first tape tears + the chance that the first tape doesn't tear but the second does + the chance that the first and second tape don't tear but the third does (about 70.4% chance if p = 1/3, 87.5% chance if p = 1/2) If there's a 50/50 chance that at least one tape would tear and you want to know what the odds are that the antinomy tape tears, the equation would become p + (1-p) * p + (1-p) * (1-p) * p = 1/2 and you'd want to know p... Then the result is 1-1/2^(1/3), or approximately 20.6%. If there's a 1/3 chance that at least one tape would tear, the odds that the antinomy tape tears would be approximately 12.6% I like maths too much...
"Today is opposite day" is a paradox. If it is opposite day, then I am saying it is not opposite day, but if it is not opposite day, then in my original statement I am saying it is opposite day.. It just repeats. Let's just say whatever I say is true, @this
It's not a paradox. If you say "today is opposite day," then it's not opposite day. If it's not opposite day, then it ends there. There's no reason for it to change back to opposite day if "today is not opposite day."
No, because we can visualize this as having two sides, "Life" and "Everyone". You can imagine them playing a game where Life is cheating and making it harder for us to win.
Cyrillic translation: Shell tnat's a sosgatis ragadoh At least I think it's been a while since Ive done Cyrillic stuff, I was learning Russian but then I kinda stopped
I'd say it would grow: for a few moments when he said it, the nose didn't grow, so he lied. Therefore, the nose grows. He didn't tell the truth because "now" is no longer now.
It would grow, then go back, then grow again and so on and so until until his death. That or grow inside his head, therefore growing and getting shorter at the same time. That or it could reveal the answer, solving the problem once and for all.
I thought the water stayed there because the earth and it’s core is hot or am I thick, I thought that it was chemically easier to keep water at liquid state and the pressure of the water/earth or atmosphere kept the water at liquid state because if you pressurise ice it turns to water, liquid form, as water(l) is more dense (hence why ice floats). And this explains why very cold planets still have deep seas with thick layers of ice as at some point in the pressure and as you get closer to the centre of the planet the water can no longer freeze regardless of how cold it actually is
My introduction to thinking about the concept of a paradox goes back to a story I read many, many years ago. Two characters were discussing time travel. One said he didn't believe it could happen because it would create "that double duck thing". It actually took me a few years to realize what he was referring to: double duck - two ducks - pair of ducks - paradox.
This is the first time The Monty Hall Paradox was explained a way that makes sense to me. Everyone seems to omit the fact that the removed option will never be the jackpot. That lack of information is what confused me all these years. Thank you.
ChikenNoodleSoup If you can't see that the jackpot being removed at any stage instead of knowing that it would never be removed on the first pull then you have no business replying to this comment.
Mind puzzles are amazing! Possessing a constant running,analytic motor for a brain such as mine, material such as this just elevated it to a cosmic level of consciousness. Thank you so much! I am truly greatful
LMFAO I have a remote to control the light in my room and the moment he said "What is a paradox" And that weird sound thing going up and down started my light went up and down with it and I was like "WTF IS GOING ON" and realized that I was accidentally leaning on it but it just made it so much better
Paradox: Two people with PhD's (pair o' docs). :) For the Monty Hall problem, the key is that Monty has knowledge of the system (and you do not). When he opens one door, it is NOT random. He has to ensure that the prize remains hidden. Basically if you originally choose a wrong door (and that will happen 2 out of 3 times) Monty is forced to show you where the prize is, by default, by opening the only other non-prize door that he has available.
note that the monty hall problem was never actually a fact on the show, there was no rule saying he HAD to open a door at all, and there was no rule that he HAD to allow you to switch. if these exact circumstances happened it'd be favourable to switch yes, but the fame of the paradox has misled people in regards to the show itself
Richard Spere ok you just resolved my issue with the paradox. Even in ravens explanation I still thought it was a constant that an option would be removed after picking a prize. I thought "but if you know he's gonna remove 1/3 options after you pick, it really doesn't matter"
Bro, cheese = some holes, so more cheese = more holes, and because more holes = less cheese because they are holes on the cheese, more cheese = less cheese.
I also found it funny. But since we can't just leave funny be funny I'll chime in (premise 1 and premise 2 are flawed). "cheese = some holes, so more cheese = more holes" - Not necessarily true, one can add more cheese mass without holes. (Either a compressed version of the same type of cheese or just another type of cheese with no holes) "more holes = less cheese" - You can take a piece of cheese and pierce holes into it without removing cheese mass. More holes = Same cheese. You can also add the same type of cheese (same holes to cheese mass ratio) and you would have more holes _and_ more cheese.
Hahaha! You're right! The fact that you actually typed all that just for a joke has me still laughing, even 24 minutes later! XD Thank you for making my day, mate!
A better way to imagine the Monty hall problem is by changing the 3 options to 100 options. You randomly choose 1 out of the 100 options, but then the host opens up 98 other doors, all devoid of the prize. With a larger sample, it seems much more logical to switch.
Why would I still switch? 😂 It is still after all 50/50 from the remaining options. Edit: Aaaaand now I got the idea. Took a while 😂 That is indeed a great way to explain this.
My favorite way of explaining the Monty Hall paradox is this: Imagine there are millions and millions of doors, and you choose one. Monty opens door after door, but you are steadfast and never opt to switch, instead holding on to your initial choice. Eventually there are two doors - one that you picked, and one that Monty picked (he chose this one to be opened last by choosing every other door before it). Now, what do you think is more likely - you picked correctly the first time, with the millions of options presented to you? Or Monty picked correctly, given that *he already knows where the prize is*? Obviously Monty just opened every door except for where he knew the prize was. You are overwhelmingly more likely to win if you switch. Well, the same is true with 3 doors, but the numbers are smaller.
If the guy who had to open Millions of doors. Left the prize door last intentionally can you trust him? If he knows you have the option to switch. And you think switching improves your odds.. maybe Id stick to my door. For me to switch is exactly what he wants so he can get the prize.... although.. the chances I picked the prize door the first time are litterally 1 in a million.
I know a paradox it's called the Ashley Paradox where you ask him to give you the movie up where if he does he "*give you up*" but if he doesent he "*let's you down*" and he said "*never gonna give you UP, never gonna LET YOU DOWN*"
the monte haul is easier to imagine if you put waaaaaay more doors. like 10000. if the prize is behind one door and the 9999 others have zonks, after choosing your one door the host opens 9998 other doors, all zonks, leaving you with only 2 closed doors containing one zonk and your grand prize. at this point you can choose between switching or keeping. the chances uou made the right choice before was 1/10000, which is very unlikely. it's much more likely that the winning door is one of the 9999 you didn't choose. now that the host has narrowed down your choices to "the 1/10000 longshot" and "last of the 9999/10000 unchosen doors that likely held the prize" which do you choose? it's a trick, they both contain the Globgogabalab as he is both a prize and a curse.
@@shorx9199 The Monty Hall Problem is named after the host of "Let's make a deal", the gameshow that made this game popular. Zonk was their name for blanks, so it's often used in Monty Hall scenarios. The globababa stuff from Vsauce is the weird part.
The Rick Astley paradox: If you ask Rick to give you the movie "up", he cant, since he can never give you up, but in doing that, he is letting you down. What should he do?
There is a problem with that solution: there are two assumptions: 1. you are counting the probability of the original choice (there where 3 envelopes, so now you choose 1 out of 3 but with one being not in your interest to be chosen). 2. you are counting the probability as if the discarted choice never existed. Depending on your assumption, you get 50/50 or 66.6/33.3. In mathematics you cannot just remove one of the options, in real life you can. The theory behind that idea is that since in one of the two options you get 50/50 and in the other you get 66.6/33.3, you want to go with the one that has a higher chance, meaning the 66.6 (assuming that you still have 3 envelopes). Here is where this breaks down: You cannot assume the 66.6/33.3 probability because the real life situation is that you still have to choose 1 of two options. If you were to assume that the opened envelope is still part of the probability, you should still be able to choose it (there is no rule against it, it simply doe not make sense to do so because you dont want that). Because probability does NOT account for what you want or dont want and it assumes that all 3 envelopes are still "of the same value", you get the wrong impression that switching is the winning strategy. If you want to see it with numbers, the way you WOULD look at it is in a different way (by leaving the 3rd envelope open for choosing but by assigning the VALUE of that envelope to you): Before the host opens the envelope you don want here is the situation: Door 1. Value 33.3 Door 2. Value 33.3 Door 3. Value 33.3 After he opens it: Door 1. Value 50. Door 2. Value 50. Door 3. Value 0. You still get tho chose door 3 if you want, but since for you the value of that door is now 0, its like it does not exist. Thats how I see it :D. EDIT: also, please understand that probability only works when there is a high enough sample. With 1 sample (one person being in the show once), probability is NOT an accurate form of guiding your decisions.
dosduros you're right the sample data is small. But the only problem with your solution is discarding the 3rd letter does not change the card in your hand. It does however change our unknown door number 2.. basically its now door 1 (your card) 33% unchanged (you always had a 1 in 3 to pick that card). Doors remaining is a 50/50% door 3 is trash and is now only 16% half its value is gone 50% of 33.. the value of switching is you get the data from every other door available. You're choosing them all! Even the trash. So you add that 16.5% from opened trash card, add it to the 50% chance of door number 2 and you're left with 1) 33% 2) 66% 3)0%
Kyle, I think there is some punctuation mark missing somewhere because your comment is hard to read. Dont understand where you get the Door 3 16% value. If you say doors remaining is a 50/50, there cannot be an additional 16 somewhere.
@@frankhurst9665 Unfortunately, when I searched it, I was trying to see the whole puzzle (not realizing you'd nearly presented the entire thing) and saw the solution instead of the puzzle. Here's the whole puzzle, for anyone else who comes by: (Assume two genders) If you have two randomly selected children and you know one is a boy, what are the odds that the other is a boy? I'll even tell you, (since it's up above) the answer is 1/3. But you still need to figure out why. This makes me think of Russell's coin problem, from which the Monty Hall problem is derived.
what if they did already. No one would know because they didn't exist in the first place and the time machine that they built also wouldn't exist cuz they don't exits and so on.
Take a look at the following: You are bourn -> You invent the time machine -> You go to the past and kill your granddad (granddad is just to eliminate a scholastic argument for possibility of doing it to your father when you'd already been bourn) -> Your father is not bourn -> You are not bourn (and it means that you can't go back in time to kill your grandad) -> Your granddad isn't killed -> Your dad is bourn -> You are bourn -> ... So, I don't feel that this is actually a paradox (like the "I am lying" one) because it is not self-contradictory. It kind of resembles the Zeno's tortoise logical trap. And I believe, that it is perceived as such only because we just lack the understanding. Why, even now the theory of parallel realities can resolve it. Travelling "back in time" is only possible by leaving (for good) your reality and entering another one at any past time spot (of this new reality). In this case the physical you (who actually took a time journey) won't equal "you" in the reality you jumped into - both your versions will be absolutely 2 different uncorrelated objects. And this would allow you to kill the grandad of your Vis a Vis in this reality without any consequences for the laws of causality for both realities (your initial one and the one you jumped into). In your initial reality you just disappeared. In the reality, you travelled to, you kill the origin of your parallel version - thus you can eliminate the possibility of your parallel version to be bourn and create the time machine. So, your drastic action will influence only the destination reality that will go on without time travel, but by no means will it influence your initial reality that will keep time travel (unless you destroyed your device and research).
Only inanimate objects which do not affect the timeline which they are in can travel back in time. I know this, since I have been in the past and will be in the future, until I am not in the present. I am lying.
There are several explanations that have come up like "time machine is impossible" "There will always be accidents stopping you from killing your grandfather" and "The man you killed is your grandfather's counterpart in another timeline". But no matter which is the case, you cannot really change the past. But of course, there'll always be possible that the truth is something we haven't thought about
The game must go on, will the host reveal the winning prize of course not they will remove one of the incorrect answers which will mathematically make your first choice less likely then switching you started with a 1/3 chance the host gives you the ability of a 50/50 chance if you switch.
Paradox(I've read it somewhere):You go back in time and kill your mother.But if you kill your mother,you will never be born thus you can't kill your mother.
dNS-FX understands by not getting it. "ohhh" means he understood it when he was smaller and then the "I don't get it" was when he typed this comment. Meaning that dNS-FX had the answer and now he is unable to remember. I BLAME THE MATRIX!
When he mentioned the Achilles and Tortoise paradox I was like, he better mention the solution cause I heard it before and I’d be really upset if he didn’t mention there was a solution
Lol he probably made this because in the potato video there were people in the comments complaining that it wasnt a paradox because there was a logical answer, even though he said it was a veridical paradox.
this paradox proves either that time travel is not possible, or that time is "prerecorded" and it's impossible for you to do something in the past that would conflict actual events that happend.
Or...it is possible...only the change becomes the new reality. You kill your grandfather, you (and any of your offspring) cease to be. But for everyone else this changes nothing even if you were a in/famous person, because for them this new reality is now reality. (And they don't know anything different)
Shouldn't 3 choices be a trilemma?
the more you know
Dotriacontalemma
You completely missed the lecture.
After 2 it should be called a polyemma.
Do I choose envelope number one...or one of the other two envelopes! Oh no! I still have a dilemma!!! :-)
"I am lying"
"No, you're sitting."
*Solved*
A and M shhhhhh 🤫
No, he's actually lying because he's lying about lying (sitting).
Tien Trien Nguyen big confusion
You deserve a Breakthrough Prize.
He's too smart to left alive.
"I am lying"
"Hi Lying, I am Dad"
Solved
I literally just thought of that BEFORE watching this video.
@Dat Boi so good I will now eat ice cream as a reward
O-O
I advise you to not take my advice
@@oneleaf11 thats a dilemma tho, not a paradox
or is it?
2 doctors together is a Pair-o'-Docs
Lol you’re right
Underrated comment
I see the potential in this comment
Man you sound like eminem
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My favorite paradox is the Astley paradox:
If you ask Rick Astley to give you the movie “Up”, he will not give it to you because he is never gonna give you Up. However by not giving you Up, even though you asked for it, he is letting you down.
Oh yeah
And he can't Run Around and Desert You either.
wow
Yes another paradox in that song is the fact that his refusal to say goodbye would make me cry.
We need rick astley to perform an experiment to confirm this paradox.
10 PM: Im gonna sleep
3 AM: *me watching this, questioning the meaning of life*
+Ha Truong.............then eventually going to bed only to find you can't sleep!
Same
Literally exactly 2:59 am as I'm writing this.
I need help.
11:53 here
i was saying this to myself last night at 2am. But forced myself to go sleep, and comeback today and watch it.
xD
The restaurant owner said “the customer is always right” and then the customer says “no we’re not”
Edit 2022: sorry about this comment, it’s no good
Paul’s Existence The owner’s statement sidesteps this problem by his statement that the customer, regardless of if the customer is lying, wrong, or telling the truth, he will always take their statement as true. The customer’s logical statement is not evaluated for truth or false; it can only be true in his eyes because he refuses to take it as anything but true. Software can be programmed to do this exact thing simply by making a scripted function return either a true or false value always regardless of input.
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I’d say that a better example is “This statement is a lie”
Edit: I commented this before watching the entire video and I feel like a genius
@@bruxinth4660 that statement is often made without much thought. There are always limitations on what a business owner will tolerate from customers. As a taxi driver, I know that sometimes the customer is dead wrong, and needs to get on out.
just cuz he isnt always right doesnt mean he is always wrong
“I’m lying”
“No your not you’re Kevin”
Solved
@@kaushikisaxena2026 he has changnesia
@@kaushikisaxena2026 The complete loss of memory caused by a sudden trauma that was, itself, also forgotten.
It is a meme from a series called Community
"Yes you are you're Kevin"
@@reywashere5284 okay
💬☠
What will happen if Pinocchio says: ``Now my nose will grow``?
Nothing because he became a real boy in the disney version, dead in the grimm brothers version (attempted suicide i believe), and assuming this paradox is in your mind then you will never know thus causing nothing to happen.
Ensues a machine every girl would love to own.
he destroys the universe
It would mean he is “lying” but thinks he is telling the truth lol.
Assuming that his nose is objective, and assuming it does not distinguish between lying and being wrong, Antimony.
I love that you gave up on that last little piece of tape
Lee Henry I am the only reply so far with a comment of this many likes?
Delirium RedBonnie no
Orbitum Collosus I said so far
Dabber boy
he didn't...
If you notice 1961 upside down is 1961
That's partially true. Only if rotated 180 degrees, but not if flipped.
What about 0?
did you get that from Vsause 1?
Image search "ambigram" - those are cool too.
It’s L96L
The Achilles and the Tortoise one seems pretty simple to me even without the infinite-to-finite explanation ngl
Achilles can beat the tortoise in the race because he isn't trying to reach the tortoise, he's trying to reach the goal. And since the goal isn't moving, he should reach it before the turtle
In another way, all Achilles needs to do is go to the place where the tortoise will be in the time duration he will reach that point then he can easily overtake it
Yeah now prove it mathematicly
@@kababuo1989 I mean theoretically if it were a 1km race and the Tortoise had a 100m headstart while sprinting 6m/min while Achillies was running at 633m/min (or 38km/hr), we can calculate that it would take the tortoise 150 minutes while Achillies would take just over a minute and a half. Obviously this isn't wasn't the point of the Falsidical Paradox but simple algebra (by today's standard) and calculus makes quick work of it
I think the paradox is not that in the CONCLUSION of the proof "Achilles cannot catch up to the tortoise" as we (and even Zenon) knew it was wrong. The paradox lies (or rather lied) in the why Zenon PROOF is, in fact, not a proof of this conclusion.
@indisou well then just for that case, Zeno also had given us the Arrow paradox, in that even with a stationary goal, the subject (Achilles or an arrow) wouldn't be able to get there, since first it would need to reach the half-way point, then the middle between that and the goal, then the next middle, and so on. For infinity. :-B
After watching this I'm even more confused about what a paradox is.
After seeing this video am now confused why i can't find a translation of this word in to Deutsche
Think he's over complicating it... Paradox is as he says... Distinct from.... Our opinion SO it IS a mind teaser because one has an opinion about an outcome (like the tortoise example) that turns out to be "incorrect" ie: Distinct from.. Our opinion!! Of course until its solved...if it ever is 🥴
No he is just using latin to translate ancient greek like a Pleb. Para - Beyond, Dox - belief
Modern translation - Mind F%?K
The breakdown explained what one is however as new information is taken in about the subject the viewers perspective shifts(presumably speaking) meaning shift of opinion so if a paradox is something that does not coincide with the opinion then learning what a paradox really is in terms of definition could clarify or create a "new" paradox for the observer/viewer/etc. (confusion) could be wrong but hey what are comments n forums for if not to learn debate etc.
If everything is possible, is it possible for something to be impossible? (Anatinomy)
I'll use your own words. "If everything is possible"
@@llll-lo6jj right, you missed the point.
If everything was possible, that would mean the impossible is possible...
Dirty Dinosaur I think they meant that not everything is possible. Aka they weren’t playing along with the “what if”.
@@nathanevans.se1668 oh. Well that's just a issue with that words connotation. Possible and impossible are just variations of the same word, so no. It's either possible or impossible. What he's trying to say is like saying " if everything has color, can something be colorless?". The answer is no, it's one or the other.
Oh. That's just a issue with the words definition. The answer is still no. If every thing is blue, can something be red? No.
paradox, noun: two structures built over water, often of wood or metal, for the purpose of docking boats.
Yep. We've all heard that at Disneyland.
Paradox: a game company that makes more DLC's than EA but no one has a problem with it.
hah
Please stop I've called the police
Alternatively, two medical professionals.
I have watched several videos of his now, and I have to say, his best quality as a presenter, is the "go with the flow" and improv he does. He is great at it
*takes a break from calc homework for UA-cam videos*
“What we have is a CONVERGENT SERIES”
*cries*
:)
Dude same, it actually hurts
More like a double treat of amazing maths.
Geometric Series: Sum to infinity
at least this one is way more fun to listen to
My favorite paradox is saying the phrase "it's opposite day"
Yeti Man not necessarily a paradox, “it’s” is extremely ambiguous to the point where it’s prima facie doubtful that the statement “it’s Opposite Day” possesses truth-value at all (propositional content), making it possibly unfit to be called a paradox at all, as opinions are nearly always supported by propositional content. In other words, it is quite possibly impossible for you to authentically hold the opinion “it’s Opposite Day” in any useful, communicative sense.
@@GratefulforFreePress wat.
@@person8064 exactly what i thought
Or your lying on regular day
Isn't that phrase more of an oxymoron
This is the first video I’ve seen of yours and I just was amazed at your white board table lmao
Watching a video like this always makes me want to own a whiteboard. Then, I remember that all of my math courses are behind me, and I would never ever use it.
we use these for school lol
Mood
With soundtracks from Netflix's Dark, this kind of videos would be AWESOME
"These"
Hmmmmmmmm
I prefer jake chudnow
The thing is that dark has no paradoxes
@@EffyStonemBroken_heart yes dark do have paradoxes
If I entered a loser contest, would I win first place, or last place?
How does one get disqualified though?
Ask DJ Khaled.
Johnny Pope considering entering the contest doesn’t guarantee a win or loss, I would have to answer I do not know. I don’t know what happened after entering the contest.
just have you contest for first place like normal then invert the ranking -_-
Depends if you won or not
>get to choose the envelope
>one million dollars or globglogabgalab
>sweat dripping down body
>palms also sweaty
>knees weak
>moms lasagna
>choose one after a while
>please please please please
>one million dollars in the other envelope
>it's the globglogabgalab
>YES
>i won
«Claps slowly»
What if a globglogabgalab costs only 1 dollar and I get the million dollars? Obviously I'll go to the store and buy a million globs.
greentext on yt?
why not
wait guys i'll go eat a sandwich
Hey Kevin, i just watched through some of your old videos to be surprised by a new one right now, what a wonderful day. Originally i wanted to write this comment under your other vids but here the chance is higher you see it. Just wanted to say thank you. Your videos are by itself interesting but the way you tell them, especially the ones about the color blue, dragons and the planet behind our eyes are so unbelievably inspiring for me and move me deep down. I just can't put it into words im getting goosebumps by your last sentences of every video. i don't know if i overinterpret but when i think about your words and your sentence the way you said it etc. i eventually get the true meaning behind that and as well in music and in speech thats what i think is the most entertaining. just like suddenly understanding a mathematical equation for me it's so satisfying to grasp the meaning of something someone said. in addition to this brilliant music and the way you tell us about that topic you create not just a piece of work but imho a piece of art that at least for me touches me emotionally. So thank you so much for your inspiring videos and please never stop doing it because if you were i probably wouldn't enjoy to learn anymore at least not as much as i do with your truly magnificient videos.
Thank you
Thinking the same. Thanks, Kevin!
You put my exact thoughts into words, could not agree more.
Jonathan Frakes yeah. Take this praise for what it is and more kevin
I teared up a little.
Riker? Is it really you?
It’s 2am and paradoxes scare me now
oh cool
(why do I always say that)
when you hit that question and music at 1:25 my brain went into full vsauce inspiration mode,
a continued thanks for watering the seedling of my mind 🙏🙏🙏
I was pretty amazed
schmoyoho oof same 😂
Whenever I read your comments, I think of you sounding like your end credits of your videos where you promote your other stuff.
Same
Accent on the ‘yo’
Modern day paradox:
Entry level position - 2-5 years experience required
Yup
Literally
Too real
That's called a Catch 22.
a catch 22. as in 'il' catch you in 22 years when your estill looking for work"
What would happen if Pinocchio said "my nose will now grow"?
It wouldn't grow, but because it doesnt grow, it counts as a lie, but then since it's a lie, it does grow, making "my nose will now grow" the truth. But since its the truth, it shouldn't have grown? You get me?
DAMN. Hunter when you search up a paradox on Google
It would grow, then shrink
This literally just made my head hurt
MIKO maybe if it ran in a cycle like when u just read the comment in an order but technically it would all happen at the same time so would it just not do anything because he’s lying but then not lying at the same time
i fink it would grow then shrink forever
UA-cam really just recommended me this in the middle of the night
“VSAUCE! kevin here.” caught me off guard
Moldy Hammer
Same
Mr. Meme Bucket thanks
Did you just step off the boat?
Have you never seen a vsauce video before?
Someone’s new to Vsauce...
Grand prize is the Globglaglabglab, right?
Of course
Sixfork Yes
Sixfork Weeeeeeeelll, yes....
*Sixforks
Of course he is, he's the yeast of thought and mind after all
I find a better version of zeno's paradox theory is this:
Imagine you're a runner in a race, to get to the end you need to get to the halfway point, to get to that halfway point you need to go to the halfway point of that, and then the halfway point of that halfway point, ext. It will go on forever, but we can't run for an infinite amount of halfway but somehow we do. I find that way easier than the archilles and the tortoise one.
The classic calculus example is shooting an arrow at a target. How long will it take to reach the target? Divide the distance traveled in half. It has taken some amount of time to travel the first half. Now divide the second half of the distance in half again. Again the first part takes some amount of time to be added. We can keep dividing the distance left to travel in increasingly smaller parts which all take some small amount of time. An infinite amount of distances to travel that each take a bit of time must add up to an infinite time. Now just use the idea of limits. As x goes to infinity y goes to 1 so y=1
this is simple one this doesn't even challenge my thinking
It's just a divided-by-2 infinite sequence
This isn’t a parallel because at a point your halfway point is so small you physically have nothing that can parallel its size. Even when you reach the smallest building blocks of our earth(atoms). You would still be theoretically one atom away from the finish line. And from there on there is no way to reach another halfway point. Because there is nothing in between that atom and the atom making up the finish line it is obvious you would finish the race.
Ever thought about timer?
The more halfway points there are the less time u need to reach the first one...
Paradox: Two medically trained physicians in one place at the same time.
Just have to say what an amazing video. It's really hard to keep ones attention with these kind of videos but you've done it perfectly. Hope to see more videos like this !
TheTypa I'm French
I like how half of his face is red and the other is blue, just like his shirt
Once you see it
You cant unsee it
@@noeruchangd ow yeah, when i watched him one of his videos i thought the same and wanted to comment about it but later on i watch more and totally forgot about that
lol
His shirt is red and grey....
@@@0o0ox Oh snap
I had to go back and look.. and yes.. now that I see it..you can't unsee it.
What is a paradox?
Two doctors.
Ha I get it
Yeah...you probably just went over the majority of people's heads on that one lol...I got it though.😂😂😂
thats paradocs!!
Pair o docs
Haha
I just randomly thought of the liars paradox myself one day and i thought i was so smart for coming up with it, and then i see this video...
5:29 only grand prize I want is that thicc yeast of thoughts and minds.
Ethan
thots*
Mmm, splendid!
reeeeeee
I know there are probably too many comments saying that, but I have to add on to that : it's a work of art, your video, Kevin, I wish you all the best!
Petko Ditchev I'm french
It's true if the person's name is lying 9:38
Yep!
well played
got em
"This statement is false"
Pinocchio: "My nose will now grow"
My favourite two...
The Motorway Sign Paradox
While travelling on a motorway in the UK I passed an electronic sign which had "SIGN NOT IN USE" displayed...
The Blank Page Paradox
When reading a document and you turn a page to reveal the next, which has "THIS PAGE HAS BEEN LEFT BLANK INTENTIONALLY" printed on it...
They're more like amusing contradictions than paradoxes
There was a 1/3 chance that one of the tape strips would not peel off completely.
Funny
@Unknown Entity
Yes, Whether or not the tape would tear is a 50/50 chance, but the probability that it was the "Antimony" card is 1/3.
1/3 +1/3 + 1/3= 1
Or does it?🤔
@@adir6094 but it can't be 1/3, because there is a chance that more than one card could tear, right? Is that how this works? (I'm not a math person)
@@Morgan-oq7uj You're right, if there's a p chance that a given tape would tear, the chance that at least one would tear would be p + (1-p) * p + (1-p) * (1-p) * p (the chance that the first tape tears + the chance that the first tape doesn't tear but the second does + the chance that the first and second tape don't tear but the third does (about 70.4% chance if p = 1/3, 87.5% chance if p = 1/2)
If there's a 50/50 chance that at least one tape would tear and you want to know what the odds are that the antinomy tape tears, the equation would become p + (1-p) * p + (1-p) * (1-p) * p = 1/2 and you'd want to know p... Then the result is 1-1/2^(1/3), or approximately 20.6%.
If there's a 1/3 chance that at least one tape would tear, the odds that the antinomy tape tears would be approximately 12.6%
I like maths too much...
It's only a small loan of a million dollars. I prefer the 'globgoglab' or something
At least it's something unique that no one else has. So it's value is infinite.
just wanted to thank you for the subtitles, i’m hard of hearing and i love learning about this kind of stuff
So far, this is the best Monty Hall description that I've seen on UA-cam.
"We have three envelopes..."
Oh no, my Monty Hall senses are tingling.
Same
"Today is opposite day" is a paradox. If it is opposite day, then I am saying it is not opposite day, but if it is not opposite day, then in my original statement I am saying it is opposite day.. It just repeats. Let's just say whatever I say is true, @this
you could just be lying tho so it isnt a paradox
It's not a paradox. If you say "today is opposite day," then it's not opposite day. If it's not opposite day, then it ends there. There's no reason for it to change back to opposite day if "today is not opposite day."
@@emmahstone3106 thank you for showing me the truth, Emmah Stone, I have never thought that way.
Edit:sike
I get it
The following is false: The previous statement was true
I can never tell the truth. I lied.
When the Jake Chudnow music kicks in...you now it's a good episode
What’s the actual song called
Know
Matthew Shezmen I'm french
Song at the beginning is Movement. The one at 1:25 is not any Chudnow song I know of.
Matthew Shezmen I love your animations dude!
“it took inventing calculus for us to prove why” hell of a quote taken outta context
If life is unfair for everyone, does it make it fair for everyone ?
Wuzi Moo no because different levels of unfairness?
No, because we can visualize this as having two sides, "Life" and "Everyone". You can imagine them playing a game where Life is cheating and making it harder for us to win.
If everyone is different, doesn't that make them the same?
Some people are more fair than others.
Wuzi Moo i like this paradox
That shirt and lighting is lit, I like how the reds are redder and the blues are bluer
I'm not going to leave a comment.
Supremax67 I'm not going to leave a reply
I have not read your comment.
Chocolatier I have not read your reply.
I don't have the time to come here and post my feedback.
I still don't know anything....
Шеll тнат's а sосгатiс рагаdох...
@nikola plays I am not sure, but that looks a bit like the russian alphabet. Not sure tho
@@greippi4563 its ukranian alphabet I recon
@@greippi4563 ye there is some Cyrilc ( Used by Slavic nations)
@@greippi4563 no where near Russian it’s вгжнявп
Cyrillic translation: Shell tnat's a sosgatis ragadoh
At least I think it's been a while since Ive done Cyrillic stuff, I was learning Russian but then I kinda stopped
"i am lying"
You are both lying and saying the truth
Paradox resolved.
which is what makes it a paradox in the first place, if hes both lying and saying the truth hes both wrong and right
@@whatinception im gonna say that is a quantum statement
Schrödingers Lyer.
Did u notice the vid is 2 years old and mentioned glubglubglabglab
Yes i noticed the video is 2 years old, and?
Now I know why Kevin has been tweeting about the yeast of thoughts and minds.
Lawrence Calablaster how
Greenfire 317 It’s part of the Globglogabgolab’s song
Lawrence Calablaster
shwabbledabbledibbledabbleschwibbleshwabglab
*This basement is a true treasure trove*
If Pinocchio said “My nose is going to grow now” what would happen?
nose.exe crashes ofc
True
I'd say it would grow: for a few moments when he said it, the nose didn't grow, so he lied. Therefore, the nose grows. He didn't tell the truth because "now" is no longer now.
Alex leonardi your cool
It would grow, then go back, then grow again and so on and so until until his death. That or grow inside his head, therefore growing and getting shorter at the same time. That or it could reveal the answer, solving the problem once and for all.
I get this stuff but at the same time I dont. It's like the more I think about it, the more I forget how it works...
thats antinomy till you know the answer
and that creates a paradox 😂
PianoApocalypse XD
hailey 😂😂
I cant think anything now just cause of you -_-
I thought the water stayed there because the earth and it’s core is hot or am I thick, I thought that it was chemically easier to keep water at liquid state and the pressure of the water/earth or atmosphere kept the water at liquid state because if you pressurise ice it turns to water, liquid form, as water(l) is more dense (hence why ice floats). And this explains why very cold planets still have deep seas with thick layers of ice as at some point in the pressure and as you get closer to the centre of the planet the water can no longer freeze regardless of how cold it actually is
The below statement is false
The above statement is true
R K this is a paradox ...
The answer is both statements are incorrect
So both statements are False.
These are logically inconsistent statements, which reference each other. It's the opposite of a tautology.
x = y + 1, y = x + 1
solve for x.
Congratulations you just posted the commonly used examples of a paradox, you twat
i love this too much thank you for this intellectual glob
Ayyy first comment
Ayyyy 2 likes
joshua moe you’re funny
By any chance, do you have discord? discord.gg/ZUm8B92
joshua moe lol no sorry buddy
I just realized that the three Vsauces are like the three paradoxes. 3 is like Falsidical, 2 is like Veridical, 1 is like Antinomy
One could antimony. Seafood anyone?
@@djyahtzee7260 i get the joke
that doesn't even make sense
@@AntennaPen ELI5....
*H E L L O , M I C H A E L H E R E*
So calculus was invented to find out about Achilles and the turtoise?
God darn Greek philosophers
😂
My introduction to thinking about the concept of a paradox goes back to a story I read many, many years ago. Two characters were discussing time travel. One said he didn't believe it could happen because it would create "that double duck thing". It actually took me a few years to realize what he was referring to: double duck - two ducks - pair of ducks - paradox.
13 year old be like. " I'm gonna confuse my friends so good"
Tawana Chikwanda *24 years old and still saying the same thing
29yr old but cant say.
no friends
Tawana Chikwanda lol I'm 13
I'm 13 and I was just thinking that
13 years olds be like:
I am gonna impress her with this.
This is the first time The Monty Hall Paradox was explained a way that makes sense to me.
Everyone seems to omit the fact that the removed option will never be the jackpot.
That lack of information is what confused me all these years. Thank you.
Glad it cleared things up! It can definitely be tough to wrap your mind around Monty Hall.
Buzz The Buzzard Dam u is stupide bruh
ChikenNoodleSoup If you can't see that the jackpot being removed at any stage instead of knowing that it would never be removed on the first pull then you have no business replying to this comment.
Mind puzzles are amazing! Possessing a constant running,analytic motor for a brain such as mine, material such as this just elevated it to a cosmic level of consciousness. Thank you so much! I am truly greatful
*simply delcious*
ziki ardani I'm french
Oh! Splendid!
ooohmmmmm
S A N T I A G O salut! j'utilise Google Traduction! Je suis en fait indonésien.
May I correct you my friend I am the glogogagalab
2:22 Basically Pewdiepie v.s. T-series
(Irrelevant comment after declaration of peace)
You deserve more reckognition buddy
Wow lol
Oh got it
damnit calculus, we almost had them
Im sorry to ruin the joke but this doesnt work with whole numbers. There is no one tenth of a sub.
Our teacher said to not write on the table pls
Anass Attik 😂😂😂
Muthuselvam Selvam ✌😅
Anass Attik it's a white board on the table u baby
Lol teachers pet gives no F's
JairaIrcel - Reverse Films Can you please just stop using internet? Thanks
Honestly, given the choice between the Globglogabgalab and 1 million dollars, I would take the Globglogabgalab in a heartbeat.
LMFAO I have a remote to control the light in my room and the moment he said "What is a paradox" And that weird sound thing going up and down started my light went up and down with it and I was like "WTF IS GOING ON" and realized that I was accidentally leaning on it but it just made it so much better
LOL
Coldfira just
Now check your christmas lights, are they flickering strangely?
Jared Nagle I see the reference you made there
Does anyone know what the song there is called?
Paradox: Two people with PhD's (pair o' docs). :)
For the Monty Hall problem, the key is that Monty has knowledge of the system (and you do not). When he opens one door, it is NOT random. He has to ensure that the prize remains hidden. Basically if you originally choose a wrong door (and that will happen 2 out of 3 times) Monty is forced to show you where the prize is, by default, by opening the only other non-prize door that he has available.
note that the monty hall problem was never actually a fact on the show, there was no rule saying he HAD to open a door at all, and there was no rule that he HAD to allow you to switch. if these exact circumstances happened it'd be favourable to switch yes, but the fame of the paradox has misled people in regards to the show itself
thanx raven lord..now i get it.
raven lord thank you so much, I couldn’t understand how it actually improved your chances but now I get it
Thank you. this has annoyed me so much in the passed and in this very video.
Richard Spere ok you just resolved my issue with the paradox. Even in ravens explanation I still thought it was a constant that an option would be removed after picking a prize. I thought "but if you know he's gonna remove 1/3 options after you pick, it really doesn't matter"
I didn't get anything ,even though it's interesting
Watch it again, or three times.
debolina biswas that’s how I feel every time I watch a vsauce vid
Its 3:27 am and got everything. Try watching it before bed haha
Same😢
Falsidical paradox = Paradox by fallacy.
Veridical paradox = Paradox by deduction.
Antinomy paradox = Paradox by Schrodingers Cat.
"I am lying"
"No, you're Balloon Kevin"
Easy.
nice
The globgobgabgalab must be the grand prize
Legend
Wtf is one of dem
duh
@@safetygoose7419 i am the yeast of thought and mind
@@elliotplummer8666 ?
if 2 mind readers reach each other , whos mind are they reading ?
Lol...very good.
no one
Uhh i think there reading each other thinking the same thing and that is "whats in your mind" thats the answer
The answer is mean that is 1.5th person.
A mixture of both the other and the other.
More cheese = More holes
More holes = Less cheese
More cheese = Less cheese
Load Game Funny but incorrect
Load Game wtf bruh More cheese does not equal more holes.
Bro, cheese = some holes, so more cheese = more holes, and because more holes = less cheese because they are holes on the cheese, more cheese = less cheese.
I also found it funny. But since we can't just leave funny be funny I'll chime in (premise 1 and premise 2 are flawed).
"cheese = some holes, so more cheese = more holes" - Not necessarily true, one can add more cheese mass without holes. (Either a compressed version of the same type of cheese or just another type of cheese with no holes)
"more holes = less cheese" - You can take a piece of cheese and pierce holes into it without removing cheese mass. More holes = Same cheese. You can also add the same type of cheese (same holes to cheese mass ratio) and you would have more holes _and_ more cheese.
Hahaha! You're right! The fact that you actually typed all that just for a joke has me still laughing, even 24 minutes later! XD Thank you for making my day, mate!
A better way to imagine the Monty hall problem is by changing the 3 options to 100 options. You randomly choose 1 out of the 100 options, but then the host opens up 98 other doors, all devoid of the prize. With a larger sample, it seems much more logical to switch.
Why would I still switch? 😂 It is still after all 50/50 from the remaining options.
Edit: Aaaaand now I got the idea. Took a while 😂 That is indeed a great way to explain this.
My favorite way of explaining the Monty Hall paradox is this: Imagine there are millions and millions of doors, and you choose one. Monty opens door after door, but you are steadfast and never opt to switch, instead holding on to your initial choice. Eventually there are two doors - one that you picked, and one that Monty picked (he chose this one to be opened last by choosing every other door before it).
Now, what do you think is more likely - you picked correctly the first time, with the millions of options presented to you? Or Monty picked correctly, given that *he already knows where the prize is*? Obviously Monty just opened every door except for where he knew the prize was. You are overwhelmingly more likely to win if you switch.
Well, the same is true with 3 doors, but the numbers are smaller.
This explanation really helped me to understand the monty hall problem. Thank You!
If the guy who had to open Millions of doors. Left the prize door last intentionally can you trust him? If he knows you have the option to switch. And you think switching improves your odds.. maybe Id stick to my door. For me to switch is exactly what he wants so he can get the prize.... although.. the chances I picked the prize door the first time are litterally 1 in a million.
I would prefer the Globgobgabgalab to $1,000,000.
Who wouldn't? duh
Dude that's legit true the Globglogabgalab is a RAP GOD!
The shviblediblediblejibblediblejibblehab!
What about if I said "Simon says don't listen to Simon"?
It's alternate timeline/universe Simon. He's warning about the "current" Simon: who's unaware of the one telling you not to do as he says.
Game over. You can't get Simon back after that.
Then Simon didn't say Simon
How do ten year olds rioting cause an orchestra?
Then I would say that I would never say that!
If you say “it’s Opposite Day” that’s a paradox
I love how he's wearing a red and blue shirt and also Is using red and blue lighting on his body dividing the pallets perfectly
The second he mentioned 3 choices and paradoxes I just _knew_ he'd mention Monty Hall at _some_ point...
Came for the paradox, stayed for the glob
I won't leave a comment.
Me neither.
I know a paradox it's called the Ashley Paradox where you ask him to give you the movie up where if he does he "*give you up*" but if he doesent he "*let's you down*" and he said "*never gonna give you UP, never gonna LET YOU DOWN*"
He's allowed to scribble on the table but my parents beat me when I did it.
He has a white board
Blue Crood congrats on understanding something simple 👏
It’s a dry earase board
Never trust your parents.
Nykal hes allowed to talk about anything but my parents beat me when i talk
The bottom sentence is true.
The top sentence is false.
TokuTickler that's a good one
The bottom sentence is true
The top sentence is true
No, wait. Nevermind xD
Stop playing with my mind... urgh
mohd taupik Your mind is mine now XD
True
the monte haul is easier to imagine if you put waaaaaay more doors. like 10000.
if the prize is behind one door and the 9999 others have zonks, after choosing your one door the host opens 9998 other doors, all zonks, leaving you with only 2 closed doors containing one zonk and your grand prize.
at this point you can choose between switching or keeping. the chances uou made the right choice before was 1/10000, which is very unlikely. it's much more likely that the winning door is one of the 9999 you didn't choose. now that the host has narrowed down your choices to "the 1/10000 longshot" and "last of the 9999/10000 unchosen doors that likely held the prize" which do you choose?
it's a trick, they both contain the Globgogabalab as he is both a prize and a curse.
Thanks this example really does help.
you just had to include "zonks" and globababa or whatever. what is that? overcomplicating things
@@shorx9199 The Monty Hall Problem is named after the host of "Let's make a deal", the gameshow that made this game popular. Zonk was their name for blanks, so it's often used in Monty Hall scenarios. The globababa stuff from Vsauce is the weird part.
Thanks this finally makes sense now
This is actually the best explanation I've gotten. Cheers
The Rick Astley paradox:
If you ask Rick to give you the movie "up", he cant, since he can never give you up, but in doing that, he is letting you down. What should he do?
copied coment alert!
He could send you to a movie theater to watch Up
The third time he pulled the tape tho......
But seriously though, the music ends, which makes it serious, and funnier.
The One most famous paradox: *Who Is HowToBasic?*
I AM HOWTOBASIC!!
Lol
I AM HOW TO BASIC
He's a guy from Perth, Australia, and I'm pretty sure he was the second guy in that video.
Still thinking about the veridical example
anch’io
IKR! Will this help me win the lottery???
There is a problem with that solution:
there are two assumptions:
1. you are counting the probability of the original choice (there where 3 envelopes, so now you choose 1 out of 3 but with one being not in your interest to be chosen).
2. you are counting the probability as if the discarted choice never existed.
Depending on your assumption, you get 50/50 or 66.6/33.3.
In mathematics you cannot just remove one of the options, in real life you can. The theory behind that idea is that since in one of the two options you get 50/50 and in the other you get 66.6/33.3, you want to go with the one that has a higher chance, meaning the 66.6 (assuming that you still have 3 envelopes).
Here is where this breaks down:
You cannot assume the 66.6/33.3 probability because the real life situation is that you still have to choose 1 of two options.
If you were to assume that the opened envelope is still part of the probability, you should still be able to choose it (there is no rule against it, it simply doe not make sense to do so because you dont want that).
Because probability does NOT account for what you want or dont want and it assumes that all 3 envelopes are still "of the same value", you get the wrong impression that switching is the winning strategy.
If you want to see it with numbers, the way you WOULD look at it is in a different way (by leaving the 3rd envelope open for choosing but by assigning the VALUE of that envelope to you):
Before the host opens the envelope you don want here is the situation:
Door 1. Value 33.3
Door 2. Value 33.3
Door 3. Value 33.3
After he opens it:
Door 1. Value 50.
Door 2. Value 50.
Door 3. Value 0.
You still get tho chose door 3 if you want, but since for you the value of that door is now 0, its like it does not exist.
Thats how I see it :D.
EDIT: also, please understand that probability only works when there is a high enough sample. With 1 sample (one person being in the show once), probability is NOT an accurate form of guiding your decisions.
dosduros you're right the sample data is small. But the only problem with your solution is discarding the 3rd letter does not change the card in your hand. It does however change our unknown door number 2.. basically its now door 1 (your card) 33% unchanged (you always had a 1 in 3 to pick that card). Doors remaining is a 50/50% door 3 is trash and is now only 16% half its value is gone 50% of 33.. the value of switching is you get the data from every other door available. You're choosing them all! Even the trash. So you add that 16.5% from opened trash card, add it to the 50% chance of door number 2 and you're left with 1) 33% 2) 66% 3)0%
Kyle, I think there is some punctuation mark missing somewhere because your comment is hard to read.
Dont understand where you get the Door 3 16% value. If you say doors remaining is a 50/50, there cannot be an additional 16 somewhere.
Vsauce2 - If you haven't done it, blow everyone's mind with the "If one child is a boy, what is the probability the other is a boy?" puzzle.
It's 1/2. Since there are 2 outcomes and one favourable outcome.
@@me.myself.i - If you can find it, go read it. It's actually 1/3.
Now is difficult to know because trans get in the equation.
@@frankhurst9665 Unfortunately, when I searched it, I was trying to see the whole puzzle (not realizing you'd nearly presented the entire thing) and saw the solution instead of the puzzle.
Here's the whole puzzle, for anyone else who comes by:
(Assume two genders) If you have two randomly selected children and you know one is a boy, what are the odds that the other is a boy?
I'll even tell you, (since it's up above) the answer is 1/3. But you still need to figure out why.
This makes me think of Russell's coin problem, from which the Monty Hall problem is derived.
@@Mythraen - Thanks for checking! Stay cool.😎😎😎
I would love to see someone build a Time Machine just to test out the Grandfather Paradox!
what if they did already. No one would know because they didn't exist in the first place and the time machine that they built also wouldn't exist cuz they don't exits and so on.
Take a look at the following:
You are bourn ->
You invent the time machine ->
You go to the past and kill your granddad (granddad is just to eliminate a scholastic argument for possibility of doing it to your father when you'd already been bourn) ->
Your father is not bourn ->
You are not bourn (and it means that you can't go back in time to kill your grandad) ->
Your granddad isn't killed ->
Your dad is bourn ->
You are bourn ->
...
So, I don't feel that this is actually a paradox (like the "I am lying" one) because it is not self-contradictory.
It kind of resembles the Zeno's tortoise logical trap.
And I believe, that it is perceived as such only because we just lack the understanding.
Why, even now the theory of parallel realities can resolve it. Travelling "back in time" is only possible by leaving (for good) your reality and entering another one at any past time spot (of this new reality). In this case the physical you (who actually took a time journey) won't equal "you" in the reality you jumped into - both your versions will be absolutely 2 different uncorrelated objects. And this would allow you to kill the grandad of your Vis a Vis in this reality without any consequences for the laws of causality for both realities (your initial one and the one you jumped into). In your initial reality you just disappeared. In the reality, you travelled to, you kill the origin of your parallel version - thus you can eliminate the possibility of your parallel version to be bourn and create the time machine. So, your drastic action will influence only the destination reality that will go on without time travel, but by no means will it influence your initial reality that will keep time travel (unless you destroyed your device and research).
Only inanimate objects which do not affect the timeline which they are in can travel back in time. I know this, since I have been in the past and will be in the future, until I am not in the present.
I am lying.
There are several explanations that have come up like "time machine is impossible" "There will always be accidents stopping you from killing your grandfather" and "The man you killed is your grandfather's counterpart in another timeline". But no matter which is the case, you cannot really change the past.
But of course, there'll always be possible that the truth is something we haven't thought about
I just hope it isn't my grandson...
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TheDankLett Agreed
Truly the most alive yeast of the mind.
ohhh
i dont get it
Me either.....he made no sense at all
The game must go on, will the host reveal the winning prize of course not they will remove one of the incorrect answers which will mathematically make your first choice less likely then switching you started with a 1/3 chance the host gives you the ability of a 50/50 chance if you switch.
Paradox(I've read it somewhere):You go back in time and kill your mother.But if you kill your mother,you will never be born thus you can't kill your mother.
Anthony Martinez he did make sense,you just didn’t make understand it
dNS-FX understands by not getting it.
"ohhh" means he understood it when he was smaller
and then the "I don't get it" was when he typed this comment.
Meaning that dNS-FX had the answer and now he is unable to remember.
I BLAME THE MATRIX!
When he mentioned the Achilles and Tortoise paradox I was like, he better mention the solution cause I heard it before and I’d be really upset if he didn’t mention there was a solution
Lol he probably made this because in the potato video there were people in the comments complaining that it wasnt a paradox because there was a logical answer, even though he said it was a veridical paradox.
ding ding ding!!!
love your vids btw
Thats actually pretty funny
I guess that is validation
Vsauce2 thank you for teaching ignorant fools like us
The Grandfather Paradox
*solved*
Fry is his own grandfather.
DaSimsNetwork therefor he can't commit sucide. Does that mean he's actually safe from his own stupidity?
That's some next-level incest.
But what if he didn't do the nasty in the past-y?
this paradox proves either that time travel is not possible, or that time is "prerecorded" and it's impossible for you to do something in the past that would conflict actual events that happend.
Or...it is possible...only the change becomes the new reality.
You kill your grandfather, you (and any of your offspring) cease to be.
But for everyone else this changes nothing even if you were a in/famous person, because for them this new reality is now reality.
(And they don't know anything different)
Plot twist: the person you assumed was your grandfather was never really your grandfather.
@@fallen8526 can you explain why? i don't understand ( yet)
@@fallen8526 okay, thank you :)
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*Insert saw theme*
What if YOU are you grandfather
It’s interesting because this actually make sense. And that’s probably why parallel universe hypothesis exists.
Kevin vigorously erasing his table makes my day XD