Interactive Paradoxes

Belief Revision & Coincidence

Exploring how human intuition fails to grasp the implications of massive scales and vast opportunities.

Littlewood's Law Calculator

Littlewood’s Law says that a person experiences roughly one “miracle” per month, if a miracle is defined as a one-in-a-million event. The idea is that we experience so many events each day that rare coincidences become surprisingly common. Calculate how many days it takes for a one-in-a-million event to happen based on your daily awareness rate.

Further reading: Littlewood's Law on Wikipedia.