The Red Queen Fallacy
Consider the Red Queen’s Race, described in an exchange between Alice and the Red Queen, in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass:
“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.”
“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.
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