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by frv103 2907 days ago
Can this concept be generalized to the point where NOTHING is a surprise? For example if a surprise party is planned for someone at some point in $TIME_PERIOD, it can't occur during the very last hour/minute/second of $TIME_PERIOD because it wouldn't be a surprise. The surprise party can't occur during $TIME_PERIOD - 1 because this would be known as well. Repeat this ad infinum just like the weekdays in the article.
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This sounds like a restatement of the Achilles & the tortoise paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Achilles_an...