This paradox is described as when Male A cannot create sperm to have children and Male B donates a working testicle to Male A. Then when Male A has a child with the new working testicle is the child Male A’s or is it really Male B’s?
by GIRTHYMONSTER69 September 02, 2021
Refrencing the situation when two or more people are chatting in an instant messaging application, when both parties begin writing a message at around the same time, and both parties stop writing to allow the other to go first.
This leaves a semi-awkward situation known as the chatters paradox.
This leaves a semi-awkward situation known as the chatters paradox.
you: hi
them: hi
them...is writing a message
you...are writing a message
you: hi
them: hi
*2.5 minute silence*
you: chatters paradox?
them: haha yeah :-P
them: hi
them...is writing a message
you...are writing a message
you: hi
them: hi
*2.5 minute silence*
you: chatters paradox?
them: haha yeah :-P
by theelous3 November 09, 2011
When inaccurate heuristics or cognizanthazards present a consistent problem to agents, such that experience is detrimental to performance or outcomes, yet experience seems necessary to complete the task.
Jake was told that seeing the movie decreased the ability of his competition to create a trailer for audiences. He avoided a cognizanthazard paradox by requesting random footage from the movie and learning nothing more about its plot while making the trailer.
by Zigioz March 08, 2023
The phenomenon manifested as the more "friends" that a member of social networks has, the less this person is willing to share of themselves with the "friends" on the network.
"I can't post anything to Facebook anymore because too many people see that stuff!"
"Yeah, dude, you're up against the Facebook Paradox with your 10,000 FB-friends."
"Yeah, dude, you're up against the Facebook Paradox with your 10,000 FB-friends."
by Nigel Spellright September 21, 2015
The paradox of the average not knowing that they're average, meaning that if someone knows that they're average, it makes them not average.
John: Man, I'm so smart; I'm aware that I'm average
Paul: Well, if you know you're average then you're not average. Look up the average paradox.
Paul: Well, if you know you're average then you're not average. Look up the average paradox.
by Java-man50050 October 21, 2020
by Smile Paradox January 17, 2021
A paradox in where a Content Creators success and community meets detriment. Where you use a certain audience for short-term growth to then be turned into stress, sadness, loneliness, and drama. Through the relations of Stan Culture and encouragement of it, it creates a problematic and destructive cycle that not even the content creator can stop. It is only through fading into inevitable irrelevance that this can be halted, or leads to the CC being completely forgotten.
"That content creator has put themselves into a Dream Paradox"
"They should have really been careful with their fans, instead they are now in a Dream Paradox"
"They should have really been careful with their fans, instead they are now in a Dream Paradox"
by Chiip June 25, 2021