I'm not deflecting, this is the topic at hand You are arguing against a ridiculous strawman and acting like the people who want to advance human understanding are somehow the ones delaying it
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I mean, shit, I just gave you an actual, real-life, completely practical example of how not being aware of this -- which many people unused to unscrupulous merchants aren't! -- can get you cheated out of significant amounts of money And you're still giving me shit over this
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Most people don't know that math, at its core, isn't really about numbers. It's about logic and reason. I enjoyed math in high school so I went to university for a math degree. I got my head handed to me because it was wildly different than I expected.
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The tweet that spawned this is *literally* about, when someone says 2 + 2 = 5, if they're saying || || = |||, or basing it in something else. That would be that pesky "definitions and axioms" part. Y'know, as far as "what we're talking about".
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