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c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)

• yesenadam 4y ago
  Also seems related to the interesting number paradox: "the smallest uninteresting number is itself interesting because it is the smallest uninteresting number, thus producing a contradiction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox Incidentally, the last line of that article is: > The mathematician and philosopher Alex Bellos suggested in 2014 that a candidate for the lowest uninteresting number would be 247 because it was, at the time, "the lowest number not to have its own page on Wikipedia".
  • inopinatus 4y ago
    perhaps resolvable by moving the self-reference to the definition e.g. "the smallest number not interesting for any other reason that its uninterestingness"