Paradox?

So if no correct answer to the question exist,
The real answer is 0% and since it is not an option, so the chance to choose
at random is 0%, it is the correct answer
Paradox solved - there is an answer, only it is not listed
Is this a paradox?
10 - 2 =?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. Nigger

I see your point, but the nature of the question does not allow you to use and answer that is not listed.

Because the correct answer is not listed, and because the question does not allow you to pick a non-listed answer, the question is flawed.

I agree, it is flawed - but it is not a paradox
(not that you said it is)

Actually if you scroll down you'll see that I explicitly stated that it isn't :p

I SAID that you didn't say it is...

You but you said that it isn't, and I'm just pointing out that I made that point before.

Also some faggot is thumbing you down, it's not me, so let me thumb you back up like i did nahingerii.

Balance, is restored

it's not. I'm gonna need someone to thumb that original comment down 23 times first.

I just accidentally English.
Sorry everyone.

But the answer is 50% because there is a 50% chance of picking 25% which is the right answer.

There is a 50% percent chance of picking 25% and a 25% chance of picking 50 percent so both answers are wrong.

But the chance of picking of picking 25% is 50% Which means that the answer to the question is 50% regardless of its value. You have to take it at face value before applying it to one of the options.

You're saying that the one and only correct answer is B) 50%

Why? Because you have a 50% chance of picking either A) 25% or D) 25%. 25% being the one and only correct answer.

Yes, I know its strange, but its a paradox remember? By picking 50% you ARE picking 25% you're simply picking them both

No. You're picking a wrong answer.

There is no paradox here. There is a simple fallacy that voids all 4 answers.

Look at the question like this.

Is OP a faggot?
A)Possibly
B)Probably
C)No
D)Possibly

The correct answer to the question is yes, but since that's not one of the options you can't just settle for possibly or probably. Therefore the question is flawed.

This analogy is also SEVERELY flawed. But so is your logic so let's call it quits.

Im using simple Logic, I cant imagine how much you must over think everything in life. Your love making must be...horrid or wonderful..........and have a lot of cogs and levers....

Rule #1 of internet - If someones brings the other side's (or his mother's) sex life into an argument, he's probably wrong

Rule #1 of sex -> Trust your instincts. Don't apply logic where it is not needed.

I save up all my logic for arguments on the internet about stupid questions that are made to trick stupid people into having stupid arguments like this.

But there is no rule 34 about this argument or us, therefore none of it ever existed...

There IS rule 34 of this argument.

The arguement, but not of us having it. Therefore we dont exist

Dude you're just making shit up. Of course we exist, and of course there's porn of us.

You can't disprove any of that, stop making these wild claims.

The moon is made of Cheese! your a nazi, Mars is all lies and propganda, gandi was satan (gets taken away and bundled into a van)


But but but, how is there porn of us? Ive grown afraid

And so Godwin's law is applied once again.

Of course there is porn of us, and that's a good thing, otherwise we wouldn't exist.

Find it find it find it

I have plenty porn of me. I could find porn of you but I'd need enough personal information.

Like where you live, what time you sleep, when you usually get naked/fap/have sex, etc.

and knowledge of any places that provide a good viewing angle into your bedroom when doiung the aforementioned activities.

Top of the world trade centre, 8am, September 11th 2001, thats a great place for a vantage point

too bad I lost the keys to my TARDIS, though.

*argument

Me being a math fag, you can't consider A and D the same choice, but rather different ones, because you're choosing at random. But you got your paradox part right =P

I don't think he is

You're just jelly 'cause he has more intelligence than you.

I thumbed it back up, because fuck you. Plus not everyone is a dick:)

Come on you don't have to be such an asshole.

your right side will just get slammed into your right side and because there is no space without going through the other portal you will jjst slam into yourself until you are nothing more than particles, i think

Portals can't be placed on moving surfaces.

THIS IS TRUE AND BEFORE ANY ONE GIVES ME THAT BULLSHIT ABOUT MOVING PORTALS IN PORTAL 2...

the portals that move in portal 2, are not moving to the direction that the portal is facing

in portal 2 you shoot a portal at the ceiling so you could launch yourself up but the launch pad doesn't launch you high enough so glados helps you and lowers the ceiling. because the surface is now moving to the same direction that the portal is facing, your portal disappears and you have to place it again.

in the level where you must use the lasers to cut the pipes, the surface is moving along the portals x-axis, not Y so the portal doesnt disappear

In the entire game, there is only one moment where portals can actually move, and you've already pointed that out. Don't you think it's unsubstantiated though to draw conclusions only from that? I'm 99% sure the portals were just scripted in that case.

there's no reason for us not to believe that portals have some "laws of movement"

there have been demonstrations where portals haven't been able to move
and there's been a demonstration whee a portal has been able to move

so we can quite easily draw a conclusion that a portal can move, but only when the surface isn't rotating, moving diagonally or moving towards/away from the direction the portal is facing.

You're taking the game WAY too seriously. There have been exactly two demonstrations, and the chances are that they have just been scripted in without any deeper thought from the devs. Can you just please accept that this is a hypothethical scenario and that everyone knows that portals in the game cannot move.
There is no point getting pissed off over the internet over this.

sorry, I just like over analyzing things

I just feel like the people over at valve are smart enough to actually plan these things out

I think they didn't expect someone to try and make exact rules for movement of portals.

Moving relative to what?
Every single surface on earth is a moving surface because of earth's movement through space.

Don't do this, please. There's always ONE person who just has to misunderstand the situation and state what everyone already knows: Portals cannot be placed on moving surfaces. This is a hypothetical scenario. If you want to nitpick, you could also argue that portals aren't real.

Excuse me..?

No, you misunderstand me, sir. I understand the situation. It's troll physics(hence the troll picture above). It's just the situation of the "Closing portal walls" couldn't be, because of the way the game was designed for portals cannot be placed on moving surfaces. At least in the case of Portal One, I may add. Anytime a portal was placed on a surface, and said surface moved, the portal would vanish. Therefore, in the image above, "Will you survive? If yes, where will you go?" would not even matter. The answer is, "No you will not survive." Given that the portals would vanish, and you'd ultimately be squished between two platforms.

Sorry for seeming serious! I know it was a joke~

And also, picture very much unrelated.

but there are 2 choices with 25%

and so 50% is now the correct chocie. But there's only 1 answer for 50%, so now the correct answer is 25% FUCKING PARADOXES MAN

You are simply not understanding the paradox at hand. If 50% is the correct answer to the question, then there is a 25% chance that we will pick that answer, thus making 50% wrong.

I understand the paradox. But it's silly. It's only paradoxical if you let it be.

50% is the right answer. 50% is only listed once, therefore making 25% the right answer, which is listed twice, therefore making 50% the right answer....AND IT GOES ON AND ON AND ON AND OOOON!!!

It's only a paradox if you allow it to be one. Just keep it simple and say, since there is the 2/4 possibility, it's 50%.

If the correct answer is 50%, and 50% is only listed once what happens? It's a paradox.

No it is not. We haven't picked at random yet, we're only answering the question. We have a 50% chance of getting the right answer

So what is the right answer?

However, if you believe the basis of the question is being random rather than correct, it's then A or D. you can be right either way. It's not a paradox, it's grammatical semantics.