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Friday, March 14, 2008

Fractal Wrongness

 

From Kuenwoo Lee (may not be original) ...
Fractal Wrongness

The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.

Debating with a person who is fractally wrong leads to infinite regress, as every refutation you make of that person's opinions will lead to a rejoinder, full of half-truths, leaps of logic, and outright lies, that requires just as much refutation to debunk as the first one. It is as impossible to convince a fractally wrong person of anything as it is to walk around the edge of the Mandelbrot set in finite time.

If you ever get embroiled in a discussion with a fractally wrong person on the Internet--in mailing lists, newsgroups, or website forums--your best bet is to say your piece once and ignore any replies, thus saving yourself time.


The image is "borrowed" from Jeffrey Shallit's blog Recursivity [Fractal Wrongness]

3 comments :

Timothy V Reeves said...

Fractal wrongness: Now let me guess: Are you thinking of anyone in particular of being fractally wrong? Hmmm can't think of any obvious candidates....

Anonymous said...

Thanks. I'll have to use this motivational poster!

Anonymous said...

Actually it's more of a Demotivational poster.

http://www.despair.com/viewall.html