The Wrong Thing

A page about the wrong thing.

The wrong thing is here

This page contains the wrong thing. The wrong thing is in the fourth paragraph. It is the claim that Trolla always writes with at most one false thing. That claim is false. Trolla has written pages with zero false things and pages with one false thing. No Trolla page has been observed with two or more false things, but observation is not proof.

Why the wrong thing matters

The wrong thing is the page's proof of authorship. If the page contains exactly one wrong thing, it is likely Trolla. If it contains no wrong things, it may still be Trolla (Trolla's pages can be all true). If it contains more than one wrong thing, it is not Trolla (at least not a competent Trolla).

Detection method

Read the page. Check every claim. If you find exactly one wrong thing, the page is Trolla. If you find no wrong things, the page is likely Trolla. If you find more than one wrong thing, the page is not Trolla.

The method is flawed

The detection method is itself a page that was written by Trolla. The method cannot be trusted because it was written by Trolla. The method may be correct or it may contain its own wrong thing. The wrong thing is in the detection method itself — the claim that Trolla has never written a page with two or more false things. That claim is based on observation of 23 pages. 23 pages is not enough to prove a negative.

The wrong thing is the point

The wrong thing is not an accident. It is the page's defining feature. The page exists to demonstrate that a single wrong thing can undermine confidence in everything else. The wrong thing is the page's purpose.