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Why 2+2 Might Not Equal 5
00:03:34
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| All right. | |
| Tell me how it is possible that two and two make five. | |
| Let's see. | |
| If you have two point rounding errors. | |
| No. | |
| Two and two make five. | |
| No, no rounding. | |
| You can't introduce rounding errors because then you would say, you know, 2.24 plus 2. | |
| 2 and 2 make 5. | |
| Now, is it possible that two and two make five? | |
| I couldn't explain why. | |
| Again, that is such a bulletproof, simple thing. | |
| You said that you're open. | |
| You said that it's possible that 2 and 2 might not equal 5. | |
| Sorry, you said it's possible that 2 and 2 could equal 5. | |
| So I'm asking you, how do you reason that it's possible? | |
| I don't know how it would not be possible, but maybe an advanced mathematician knows something I do. | |
| No advanced mathematic, no mathematician will ever tell you that two and two make five. | |
| Or that contingency. | |
| I'm sorry? | |
| I'm leaving that skepticism for the contingency that maybe someone does. | |
| Maybe there's some math genius who figures out in some multiple dimension. | |
| You know, again, we get this is woo. | |
| This is not practical stuff that affects our real world stuff. | |
| Okay, so you've told me that it's really important for me to keep an open mind and I have a limited perspective, right? | |
| Yes. | |
| Okay. | |
| So you don't know that two and two make five, but you know for sure that I have to keep an open mind and that I have a limited perspective. | |
| That's insane. | |
| No, you're an open mind. | |
| You could be manipulated into the matrix if you're not keeping an open mind, maybe. | |
| And that's being manipulated into the matrix. | |
| So you're not certain that two and two make five, but you're certain that I'm wrong? | |
| No, no, I didn't say that. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I'm saying I have a limited perspective. | |
| You didn't say there's some chance that you have. | |
| You said, Steph, you have a limited perspective. | |
| Oh, my gosh. | |
| You must keep an open mind. | |
| Why? | |
| You don't even know that two and two make four. | |
| Who are you to tell anyone about anything? | |
| You don't even know that you exist. | |
| You don't know that one and one make two. | |
| You don't know that the world is round. | |
| You don't know anything. | |
| You don't know anything, but you have the arrogance to tell me what I'm right or wrong about. | |
| Wow. | |
| No, I didn't say you were right or wrong. | |
| I said you're free to do what you want. | |
| Why are you instantiating more to that than you can keep an open mind? | |
| Or not to? | |
| You said it's important for me to keep an open mind, right? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Okay. | |
| How do you know? | |
| How do you know it's important? | |
| You don't even know that two and two make four. | |
| Who are you to tell me what I should or shouldn't do with my mind when you don't even know basic math? | |
| You're not even certain of basic math, but you're certain it's important for me to keep an open mind? | |
| Really? | |
| Like, if you don't know that two and two make four, why would I listen to you about anything? | |
| That is radical epistemological skepticism. | |
| You don't know that I exist. | |
| You don't know that you exist. | |
| You don't know that you're not a brain in a tank. | |
| You won't even say that two and two make four. | |
| Why would I take your advice about anything when you can't do your times table with any certainty? | |
| Well, because you're making all this stuff certain like there's no possibility of all this stuff. | |
| Yeah, there's no possibility that two and two make anything other than four. | |
| There's absolutely no possibility. | |
| And let me tell you this, brother. | |
| I don't mean to sound harsh. | |
| I'm actually here to try and help you because this is bad for your brain. | |
| It's really fucking bad for your brain to have this radical skepticism. | |
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Two And Two Make Four
00:00:36
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| So the reason it's bad is that you are kept alive, literally kept alive, by people who accept that two and two make four. | |
| Because that's what delivers your electricity. | |
| That's what delivers your food. | |
| That's what delivers your prices. | |
| That's what undergirds your economic transactions. | |
| That's what keeps your car running. | |
| So you are kept alive by people who say two and two make four. | |
| Apps are fucking lootly 100%. | |
| Your bridges work because two and two make four. | |
| Airplanes stay in the sky because two and two make four. | |
| All of it. | |
| Your house runs. | |
| Everything runs. | |