Aug. 6, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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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 rounding, no rounding, you can't introduce rounding errors because then you would say, you know, two point two four plus two point one, two and two make five. | |
| is it possible that two and two make five? | |
| I couldn't explain why. | |
| Again, that is such a bulletproof simple that it's not. | |
| You said that you're open. | |
| You said that it's possible that two and two might not equal five. | |
| Right. | |
| You said, yes, you said it's possible that two and two could equal five. | |
| So I'm asking you, how do you reason that it's possible? | |
| I don't know how it could not be possible, but maybe an advanced mathematician knows something I do and no advanced mathematician will ever tell you that two and two make five. | |
| For that contingency. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| I'm leaving that skepticism for the contingency that maybe someone does. | |
| Maybe there's the some math genius who figures out in some multiple dimensions. | |
| 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 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 I could be manipulated into the matrix. | |
| So you're not certain that two and two make five five, but you're certain that I'm wrong? | |
| No, oh no, I didn't say that. | |
| 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, 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. | |
| Why? | |
| No, I didn't say you were right or wrong. | |
| I said you could, you're free to do what you want. | |
| Why are you instantiating more to that than you can. | |
| You said it's important to keep an open mind. | |
| Or not to, or 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 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? | |
| You you have you 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 underpins 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. |
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