/sci/ - Science & Math

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I accept it as a hypothetical possibility like anything else. You keep saying "reality" when it's a subjective thing based on human perception.

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Do scientists need to do that though? If a politician can not understand a basic numeral system and an operator he/she shouldn't be a politician, they should also understand precalc, statistics and probability.
The state of the western world is in such a decline right now, with my limited interest in politics Dominic Cummings seems to be the only person I know of that actually seems to be doing and trying to fix it in a genuine way, at least in the public eye.
Idk, the people who believe something like 2+2=5 are the same type of people who blindly believe in "scientists say" without even comprehending the scientific method because their favorite new source told them that science said something.
I think another problem is people wasting their time arguing with this, arguing with an adult that 2+2 is not 5.
Look for and focus on the root of the problem, attack it, help lost people. Yelling at or trying to fight a hurricane won't fix much, build something to withstand it instead.
What's the root of this? Not taking into account politics or a conspiracy of a group of people. Some things I can come up with about someone who thinks 2+2 is 5
-people do not understand what the concept of a number is
-people do not know about multiple numeral systems
-people do not comprehend what an operator is even if they're conscious of the idea of +
Imagine mark fishers capitalist realism theory and hyper apply it to everything, so many people can not think of anything else but contemporary view and things in time, existing within their own mind, and when media, smartphones and culture is an extension of the persons mind they don't think because they do not notice their actual surroundings.
You know the virus of people becoming more radical as time goes on? It's because their frame of reference expands to everything until they don't even check on a source.
>"oh a terrorist from race x blew up building y? Makes sense, they all suck"
meanwhile there was no building y.

I don't cope, good for him