Originates from game theory, (the field of math, not the Youtube channel.) The 0 is replaceable with any number, usually no higher than k1. Describes how many "levels" of thinking someone exhibits.
k0: I am going to play scissors.
k1: I know Bob usually plays paper, so I'm going to play scissors.
k2: Bob knows I usually play rock, so he will play paper, and to beat him I will play scissors.
k3: Bob is aware that that I know he usually plays scissors, and that I'll play rock to beat him, so he will play paper. To beat that, I will play scissors.
etc.
k0: I am going to play scissors.
k1: I know Bob usually plays paper, so I'm going to play scissors.
k2: Bob knows I usually play rock, so he will play paper, and to beat him I will play scissors.
k3: Bob is aware that that I know he usually plays scissors, and that I'll play rock to beat him, so he will play paper. To beat that, I will play scissors.
etc.
1: What the hell? The highway was completely jammed yesterday, but the second I think to come take this shortcut, the highway's empty, and the damn shortcut is jammed!
2: What the hell kind of k0 thinking is that man? Did you not think about how everyone else ALSO knows about this shortcut?
2: What the hell kind of k0 thinking is that man? Did you not think about how everyone else ALSO knows about this shortcut?
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A subset of overthinkrs which take in all of their knowledge that they know, and allow for it all to combine into a path. Which will inevitably lead nowhere. This way of thinking is obscure because it torments the thinker to all of the things that are and ever could be. It's a thinking process that trys to rationalize everything the person knows, but can't because everything is too hard to grab. Since everything is unknown because everything is everything, but everything is nothing.
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Andrea forgot her friend's birthday. She called her and said, Happy Belated Birthday--- "What wasn't I thinking?"
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Tom, We do have other information. Lets move from little data thinking; we have access to the outdoor temperature of many other sources in the same zip code than just the one in the car.
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This is something of a set phrase comes out of one's mouth whenever one thinks that someone was true but is proven wrong by something he just saw/heard/learned.
This is something of a set phrase comes out of one's mouth whenever one thinks that someone was true but is proven wrong by something he just saw/heard/learned.
Exemples:
1:- Friend one, a bodybuilder wannabe, is caught having MacDonalds.
friend two: Whoa, wtf? And there's me thinking you were on a diet, huh?
2: -A non-binary leftist is caught eating meat.
Friend of him: lol, and there's me thinking all leftists were vegetarian.
3: If you see someone getting famous using an idea you thought you were the only one that had thought of, you can say: There's me thinking i was original. lol
1:- Friend one, a bodybuilder wannabe, is caught having MacDonalds.
friend two: Whoa, wtf? And there's me thinking you were on a diet, huh?
2: -A non-binary leftist is caught eating meat.
Friend of him: lol, and there's me thinking all leftists were vegetarian.
3: If you see someone getting famous using an idea you thought you were the only one that had thought of, you can say: There's me thinking i was original. lol
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