Title: Nice new phrase "fractally wrong" Post by: Alef on January 14, 2012, 04:17:06 PM Searching for fractals I found this and I quind of liked. Even if born in USSR I am totally against atheism ideology, as it do remainds of the fail of its ideology and replacement with the same atheistic national- radicalism in exUSSR. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fractally%20wrong (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fractally%20wrong) Quote 1. fractally wrong 94 up, 2 down Being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. Zooming on every part of one's world view finds beliefs exactly as wrong as one's entire world view. Dude, you must not join this cult, they're fractally wrong. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fractal_wrongness (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fractal_wrongness) Quote Fractal wrongness Fractal wrongness is 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 poor 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. (http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/jmiles/2008/05/18/fractal_wrongness.jpg) |