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Paradoxes point to conceptual glitches or bugs. How to fix the bugs, or whether they can be fixed, is rarely obvious.
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” To understand the universe, we need more Mad Hatter mathematicians.
How Roko’s Basilisk, a ‘terrifying’ thought experiment, went to the Met Gala.
Sometimes statistics and probability can produce unexpected or counter-intuitive results. If we’re hoping to use numbers to make good decisions, we should be wary of the traps.
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Essex
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Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of Nottingham
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Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University