The assumption that objectivity is a single, unified thing—a muscle you can strengthen and then apply uniformly across all domains. The General Objectivist thinks that being objective about, say, sports statistics means they're automatically objective about politics, relationships, or their own motivations. They treat objectivity as a character trait rather than a painful, domain-specific discipline that requires constant relearning. This bias lets them feel like Objective People™ without doing the actual work of questioning themselves in areas where it might hurt.
"I'm an objective person—I call balls and strikes in my fantasy football league," he said, moments before explaining why his childhood trauma definitely has nothing to do with his current relationship problems. General Objectivity Bias: mistaking one skill for all skills.
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General Variables Example: "Every study of educational outcomes finds socioeconomic status as a general variable—it predicts everything, explains a huge amount of variance, and is almost impossible to truly control for because it shapes every aspect of a child's life."
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A theoretical hypothesis proposing that the universe possesses inherent mechanisms to prevent paradoxes when the known laws of physics appear to be violated at macroscopic scales. According to this speculative principle, if faster-than-light travel became possible—seemingly violating relativity and enabling causal paradoxes—some undiscovered physical mechanism would automatically activate to prevent grandfather paradoxes from actually occurring. Similarly, if energy were not conserved in some process, or if negative entropy emerged spontaneously, the universe would compensate through some other channel to maintain overall consistency. The General Law suggests that physics is not a collection of independent rules but a self-consistent system that protects its own coherence—if you punch a hole in one law, another law quietly patches it before paradox can emerge. It's the cosmological equivalent of "the universe bats last," applied to the largest scales of reality.
Example: "The physicist speculated that if FTL travel ever became real, the General Law of Physical Compensation would ensure you could never actually kill your own grandfather—not because relativity forbids it, but because the universe has backstop mechanisms we haven't discovered yet."
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