Similar opposites

Math folk may tell you that exact opposites are often similar, especially when multiple dimensions are involved, since they differ by only a sign. For instance, taking the negative of an image does little to obscure the information it contains. Photographers who capture and store images on negatives will likely agree.

This is also true for idea codes: If someone says that you're exactly wrong, the implication is that you are asking the correct true-false questions but assigning the wrong answers. Taken literally this means that, except for a sign change, they see the world precisely as do you. This is one reason that those who see themselves as polar opposites often find themselves serving the same set of bad ideas.

Unfortunately our ideas about the world often differ from the world itself by a lot more than a change of sign. Thus for example when you hear talk about one person or idea being the exact opposite of another, your monoscale-thinking alarm should probably go off.