Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Fractal Wrongness
I'm cross posting this from my HankFox site, mainly because I have one of the visitors here to thank for making me think of it. I wish I could take credit for this idea, but it's not mine. I found it online.
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.
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My Grin is in my Grin.
Hilarious! And once defined, obvious. (I probably thought it up once but forgot.)
Employing the explanatory power of Fractal Wrongness could lead to some amazing results. If we could figure out the math we might be able to employ a single function to address a dolt on an infinite number of levels at once, thereby arguing him out of every view he had ever had. If we can figure out the math . . .
a little web research
Thanks...that is the perfect description for a very time-consuming problem!
FYI: I found that definition here, which has been online since 28 October 2001 according to Internet Archive Wayback Machine. (Yes, I'm an attribution geek!)
The next time I'm tempted to feed the trolls online, I'll append that link to my final statement and call it a day.
neighbor
I know that Fractal Fucker. He lives just down the street.
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