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Paradox sketches

Explore sketches, drawings, and illustrations that simplify ideas related to Paradox.

The automation paradox explanation, or paradox of automation, summary with a hiker choosing their phone in place of a physical map and then getting lost in a landscape when there's no signalThe Automation ParadoxThe paradox of choice: a poor soul confronted by a giant pizza selection raises their expectations, wonders about everything they're missing, anticipates getting it wrong and then blames themselves for picking the wrong oneThe paradox of choiceThe liar paradox: one soul gets in a muddle trying to interpret when another says simple "I am lying"The liar paradoxThe transparency paradox: In an open classroom one student secretly passes a note to the other illustrating the transparency paradoxThe transparency paradoxThe Abilene paradox: a family sets out on a trip to Abilene on a hot dusty day only to discover on the way back that none of them actually wanted to goThe Abilene paradoxThe coastline paradox: a map of the UK dividing up the coastline with ever smaller rulers shows how the coastline length dramatically increasesThe coastline paradoxWhat is Jevon's paradox: fuel use tends to increase, not decrease, despite efficiency gains. Observation from William Stanley JevonsJevon’s Paradox
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