It doesn't even need to be that close to 2.5 2 1/3 pretty clearly rounds to two. And two lots of that clearly rounds to five.
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Replying to @Gent_Sausage @arthur_affect
If you have a set of scales and you have a thing that shows on the scale that it weighs two, and another if that thing, that also shows on the scale that it weighs two, and you weigh both together you still see that it weighs five. That's the point.
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Rounding errors are errors.
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Reality is full of rounding errors because we don't have infinite precision. Understanding that is important. One way to help understand it is to look at a very simple case which should help explain it. Or you can stamp your feet and scream that 2+2=4 and not learn.
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Replying to @phyphor @scsimodem and
Hey man - at least you can sleep well with the knowledge that in a future authoritarian society you would not be remotely in danger of execution. A model citizen who willingly believes lies.
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Replying to @CorwinRowlette @phyphor and
Jesus Christ dude being a contrarian who's willing to publicly defend the "2+2=5" take is the EXACT OPPOSITE of being a "model citizen"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
This is why the Orwell shit is so incredibly frustrating and obnoxious from people like you You actually believe this kind of shit is a sign of your heart strength of character, your courage and moral fiber
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
Paranoid Style of American Politics shit Hofstadter went into This self-contradictory belief that "acting normal" and believing and saying ordinary and normal things is a sign of virtue and courage because the freaks and weirdos are seizing power
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
The enemy must be both strong and weak, must be both everywhere and nowhere, a tiny irrelevant and laughable minority but one that has its hands on every lever of power
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It's ridiculous A mathematician talking based on his expertise saying "Things are complicated, there's more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy" And you see him as O'Brien strapping you down in a chair
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