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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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
Become a street vendor and start arguing for that degree of rounding. See how it goes.
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Replying to @Aya62335284 @perdricof
If I do not have access to a measurement tool with the degree of precision I want, and I am forced to compromise based on estimates (a common outcome in street vending, depending on the street), there are many situations where the 2+2 = 5 result is the fairer one
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You get that, right Do you understand I'm talking about a completely commonsense, real-life problem here That there are plenty of situations where dogmatically saying 2+2 = 4 is a way for me to cheat you
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The more general way to phrase what I'm talking about is "Weigh them all together" If the scale has a fudge factor then adding up separate results from it will make it worse But the "2+2=5" idea is absolutely an accurate way of describing it
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(This came up on Square One TV when I was a kid Months typically have four seven-day weeks, plus a few days extra It is very tempting to round down and just say "one month = four weeks" But if you do that for the whole year, you've cheated someone out of 4 weeks out of 52)
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(That particular example, even though you'd think it's a fucking obvious one, is one that's been used to fuck over uneducated people in the wild before Hence you always count the number of weeks in a year by dividing 365 / 7 = 52 plus a day, not by adding up the months)
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By "bailey" you mean "strawman", which 99% of the time is what it means when people like you use it
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No, I'm making a motte-and-bailey argument, I'm saying you're doing ithttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1289661410146840576?s=19 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect @XFitNYC and
If we want to go big picture your motte is expressing concern about whether kids are being adequately drilled on math skills in school and your bailey is this full blown conspiracy theory about Cultural Marxists seeking to destroy the West
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