I won't attack you personally as you're fond of doing, but you make arguments either in bad faith or that lack intellectual rigor which requires reasonable interpretation and understanding of others' words. Also, I wonder if you're aware that you're literalizing Orwell?
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Replying to @Aya62335284 @kareem_carr
Orwell wrote a whole essay specifically about the fact that it struck him one day that he knew the world was round but only from books, and spent a while trying to think of how he could personally convince himself of this based on his own experience
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It was an interesting piece because it talks about how the world is getting bigger and expertise more specialized and the shibboleths that mark an "educated person" increasingly dependent on faith in institutions I doubt he'd be backing your take (though he could be an asshole)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @kareem_carr
You don't seem to know that 2 + 2 = 5 has a specific role in Orwell, and in preceding literature. And I quote, from Orwell writing about Nazi propaganda: "If he says that two and two are five – well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs."
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Replying to @arthur_affect @kareem_carr
That actually isn't a quote from 1984... But yes, it's very much in there there too. This is an actual fact: you're literalizing Orwell.
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You do realize that you are the one arguing for uncritical taught knowledge, which is exactly what Orwell was referring to. Unquestioning acceptance of ideas. In this case, 2+2=4. When that's not always true due to the imprecise status of reality.
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Replying to @ArcaneHedge @Aya62335284 and
You must hate computers...all 1's and 0's...and nothing else...and the 1's had better be 1's and the 0's better be 0's or the whole thing collapses...
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Understanding that everything in the real world is all sloppy is fundamentally necessary in order to actually work with computers
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like how many times must the computer be told that when I type the letter "e" the letter "e" comes out? Life is so sloppy...I am eternally in adulation when an "e" emerges when I type "e"
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Okay, so you don't actually know how computers work and just blithely assume they always do work, thanks to the labor of many people smarter than you
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Well, if I use your computer, and when I use it, 2+2 doesn't equal 4, I'm going to return it for a full refund...
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Replying to @tvvittere @arthur_affect and
Cool, go paste this into your browser console and let me know when you've gotten a new computer: console.log(.1 + .2);
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