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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      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

      3 replies 1 retweet 68 likes
    2. Rational Academic. What’s Left of the Sound Left?!‏ @Aya62335284 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof

      Become a street vendor and start arguing for that degree of rounding. See how it goes.

      4 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      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

      34 replies 2 retweets 67 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      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

      5 replies 2 retweets 67 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      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

      8 replies 1 retweet 56 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      (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)

      1 reply 3 retweets 56 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      (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)

      1 reply 1 retweet 51 likes
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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @XFitNYC @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      By "bailey" you mean "strawman", which 99% of the time is what it means when people like you use it

      1 reply 1 retweet 38 likes
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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @XFitNYC @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Arthur Chu

      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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      Arthur ChuVerified account @arthur_affect
      Replying to @arthur_affect @XFitNYC and 2 others
      "Motte-and-bailey arguments" themselves are the motte Reading everyone you dislike in bad faith as members of a sinister conspiracy is the bailey
      3:54 PM - 1 Aug 2020
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
          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

          0 replies 2 retweets 9 likes
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