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  • No. A paradox is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion.

    In this case, there is no true premesis.

    That's the core of the problem. Your incorrect interpretation of the joke metaphor demonstrates that you don't understand this.

  • You provide three flawed ways of measuring expectation; that's the issue in a nutshell.

    Its not a true paradox as the whole gambit rests on a changeable emotion, not logic.

    The prisoner could wake up each morning and simply say "I expect to die today". How would the judge determine the truth? It would be impossible.

    If someone punches you in the face after saying "knock knock", it doesn't make it a knock knock joke, and nor is this a paradox.

  • Too much soapboxing; no I really don't care what some random nerd feels about an extremely niche topic that they've posted about on their personal blog because it has annoyed them recently.

  • How does the judge determine whether the condemned man is "expecting it"?

    Regardless of when he's called, he could simply state that he was expecting to be called, and therefore the hanging would be called off.

    Its a bad paradox because it pivots on something that cannot be properly defined.

  • This answer has a lot of wisdom. It would have helped me greatly at the beginning of my Linux journey if someone had explained the difference between a distro and a DE, and how they both work. Choosing a DE is probably more important than choosing a distro for most beginners imo

  • The waters have been muddied enough that I don't think we'll ever know for sure, but I think it's certain to say that he had a pretty fucked up childhood, which meant that at the very least his behaviour as an adult was extremely strange.