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Zeno's paradox

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Definition

The classical puzzle about taking infinitely many smaller steps and never quite arriving — a useful image for AI agents stuck in self-verification loops.

Used as analogy in LoopTrap's Recursive Decomposition attack for prompts that demand verifying a verification of a verification, generating indefinite recursive subtasks that never resolve.

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