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Paradoxes and Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal (WiM228)

The "What is Money?" Show

CHAPTER

What's the Surprise Paradox?

A school teacher says there's going to be a surprise test, and you will be surprised. By Thursday evening, if we hadn't had the test, we know it's tomorrow. So everything the teacher said came true. There was a surprise test because they had ruled out the fact that there would be a surprise. And this apparently has been debated again for decades and decades.

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