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Two and Two Make Four

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The Importance of Axioms

Two plus two never equals five so defending it was probably a pretty bad move he introduces clock arithmetic in a rather awful way we can talk about some more later. He actually gives some very weird economic examples talking about airplane ticket prices and obviously it's rigorous math and counting that would make it clear up these discrepanciesSo he was trying too hard and fine. Ended up getting to write an article help write an article for the 538 blog which is very famous around election statistics and election polling. In other words he got status out of this he even bragged on Twitter about how I had been engaging with his threads he'd gained thousands of followers he thanked me kind of snarkily but maybe not.

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