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    1. Peter Suzman‏ @Biomaven 20 Sep 2020

      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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    2. Peter Suzman‏ @Biomaven 20 Sep 2020

      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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    3. Peter Suzman‏ @Biomaven 20 Sep 2020

      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 …

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      Testing 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/DiC9VX5gyD
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    4. Peter Suzman‏ @Biomaven 20 Sep 2020

      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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      gracie cunningham 🐸 @graciegcunning
      can we blow this one up instead of the one where i sound stupid hashtag math isn’t real pic.twitter.com/HuaEDwqXXP
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    5. Peter Suzman‏ @Biomaven 20 Sep 2020

      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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    6. Peter Suzman‏ @Biomaven 20 Sep 2020

      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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      Peter Suzman @Biomaven
      Feynman (not) answering a “Why” question on magnets repelling each other - certainly the deepest thing you will hear today, or perhaps ever https://youtu.be/36GT2zI8lVA 
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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 20 Sep 2020
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      Meta all the way up! (Wow I had not known it went on for so long)

      9:09 AM - 20 Sep 2020
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