Turns out it's not actually turtles all the way down. Instead it's meta all the way down. @eigenrobot
So we'll start at the "bottom" (1) with this now famous viral video of a girl apparently naively questioning math:https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7vtnmf
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Next level up (2), we get swarms of folks criticizing her for being a really dumb blonde. But then come scientists and philosophers (3) pointing out that these are actually very profound questions and the (2) folks were actually the dumb ones. References to Feynman spring up
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Peter Suzman Retweeted Bill Hayes
Now of course meta can proceed in many directions, and so we also get the social commentary folks (4) noting that the video comes across as quite different if the same words are presented by an adult male in a different manner:https://twitter.com/billdotmu/status/1298982019687313408?s=20 …
Peter Suzman added,
0:52Bill Hayes @billdotmuTesting a theory. I don't think the original video was dumb at all, I think when an American teenage girl says something people interpret it differently to the same words coming from a British man in his thirties. What do you think?#mathisntreal@graciegcunning https://twitter.com/aIeturner/status/1298372968838508546 … pic.twitter.com/DiC9VX5gyDShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
Peter Suzman Retweeted gracie cunningham 🐸
It wouldn't be properly meta if it wasn't recursive, and so now we get a redo (5) of the original video:https://twitter.com/graciegcunning/status/1298804338727489536?s=20 …
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And then (6) mainstream media get hold of the topic: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/magazine/math-tiktok-teens.html?searchResultPosition=1 …
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Peter Suzman Retweeted Peter Suzman
And of course (7) this series of tweets. Let me end by returning to Feynman (3) on levels of explanation:https://twitter.com/Biomaven/status/1292060911759437826?s=20 …
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Meta all the way up! (Wow I had not known it went on for so long)
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