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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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
The dickhead conservatives who've adopted Orwell love to say "Newspeak" to mean any jargon they don't like or understand, especially "PC jargon" But Newspeak is the OPPOSITE of that Newspeak is about only using simple words that everyone knows whose intended meaning is obvious
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It's designed to make you talk like a little kid "Good" and "ungood" are the only words you can use to judge something All verbs have only one tense ("think" and not "thought") Language is supposed to become easy and automatic, there are no double meanings "Duckspeaking"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
Do you not see how, IN PRACTICE, this is much more like you than like me This obsession with the concept of "plain speech", of obvious meanings and simple communication and clearing the culture of any traps and snares laid by complex abstract thought
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
You know what I'm stuck on is how much Orwell hated CS Lewis' Mere Christianity for exactly this reason CS Lewis' whole job as a Christian apologist, defending a traditional and dominant ideology from challenge, was reassuring people in this way
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