Yeah but because you can't see at that level of precision you don't know what those numbers are
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gent_Sausage
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 @phyphor and
You right fam - being willing to not just say, but believe, that facts are not facts and there is no objective truth even in math isn’t something an authoritarian society would desire. I see ministry of truth job apps in your future.pic.twitter.com/EikgXNkksH
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Replying to @CorwinRowlette @phyphor and
It really isn't though Orwell has a lot to answer for here, like a huge chunk of how 1984 portrays totalitarianism is pure fiction based on his own hangups
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I mean hey we can stick to the text of that one book you love so much if you want The strawman you're accusing me of is solipsism, and 1984 is explicit that the Party rejects solipsism and considers their ideology to be the exact opposite of solipsism ("You do not exist")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
"Any point of view has some validity to it, every model actually used by human beings must have some utility and therefore truth, give everything a chance before tossing it away" That was what Carr said, and it's the OPPOSITE of saying truth is received wisdom from the Party
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
The freedom to play, the freedom to fuck around and say "What games with language can I use to make 2+2=5 work if I want it to" The Party is absolutely opposed to that The concept of Newspeak is explicitly to make this kind of thing impossible
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