Yeah. We get it. Not-2 and Not-2 equals Not-4. That doesn't change the fact that 2+2 = 4
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Yeah but, like So what
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gent_Sausage and
Who gives a shit What is the actual purpose of waving around arithmetically true statements, what knowledge do you gain If I actually wanted to know what 2+2 was I could ask Siri
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The purpose is that despite the 2 in the saying being an abstract it was meant to be an example of another abstract concept (yeah I know you have trouble with those) of a universally true statement that deranged lunatics will still try to distort.
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And the point of the actual mathematician replying to this making fun of it is that this is a pointless, ridiculous thing to get heated about People in the business of defending sacred eternal verities need to get a better hobby (like making fun of those people)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gent_Sausage and
Who gives a shit about "universally true statements" The purpose of saying words is to accomplish some kind of goal, which entirely depends on what you're doing at the moment Mathematicians know this better than anybody
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Your entire argument boils down to "observations are merely an approximation of reality" which is not novel, and in fact painfully obvious. It also has no bearing on the underlying reality which functions independently of your imperfect observations. And now for Chu's next trick:
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Replying to @Gent_Sausage @arthur_affect and
"Hurr it really isn't a pipe! It's a picture of a pipe! I'm going to pretend you literally thought this was a pipe and then do victory laps!"pic.twitter.com/QpcdIThahe
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Yeah I'm not the one who started a crusade about how the postmodernist Cultural Marxist mindset that created this painting is going to tear down the foundations of Western civilization
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gent_Sausage and
You understand that you are the ones who have no chill here right Like -- hell, I'm gonna go Godwin, why not -- literally like Hitler pointing to Surrealists like Magritte and calling them part of the Bolshevist cancer destroying art from the inside
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Or pointing to Einstein's Theory of Relativity (with very little understanding of what he even meant by "relativity") and accusing him of peddling a sinister "Jewish science" that was an "arrogant delusion", "disconnected from the reality of our eyes and ears"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gent_Sausage and
That whole kind of thing While we're busy invoking Orwell talking about Hitler and shit You know which side in that 1930s culture war was not a fan of snotty academics insisting on making everything *complicated*
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