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Tog's Paradox

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260 points adzicg | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 12:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.232s | source
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lupire ◴[22 Oct 24 15:12 UTC] No.41915095[source]▶
This is the weightlifter's paradox.

Lifting weights never gets easier. Lifting weights and getting strong makes the weights heavier.

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1. bonoboTP ◴[22 Oct 24 22:51 UTC] No.41919526[source]▶
Similarly with the difficulty of many things. When you learn some math, you go on to learn some more complicated, more abstract math. When you solve a research problem, it creates new, often harder puzzles.