Know your paradoxes
Summary
The post surveys paradoxes across meaning, deduction, and true contradictions, illustrated with thought experiments from philosophy and mathematics (e.g., ship of Theseus, teleportation, Monty Hall, Berry paradox). It discusses how such paradoxes relate to AI reasoning, models of self-reference, and the limits of formal systems, suggesting paradoxes as a tool to probe and slow down faulty AI behavior. The piece also references related articles and signals interest in foundational questions around AI and computation.