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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

https://zeta.one/viral-math/

I wrote a (very long) blog post about those viral math problems and am looking for feedback, especially from people who are not convinced that the problem is ambiguous.

It's about a 30min read so thank you in advance if you really take the time to read it, but I think it's worth it if you joined such discussions in the past, but I'm probably biased because I wrote it :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I am thinking then we both understood some and misunderstood some.

My point was, if I want to critic the blog for it's internally odd Argumentation, then obviously it makes sense to use the blog as a source and it is in fact the only valid source for the critic of internally odd Argumentation.

My intention wasn't to use the blog as a source for anything beyond that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

e.g. you made a comment about teaching the "scientific" method to kids, and I can tell you as a teacher that we already do (but the OP never looked at any Maths textbooks, nor asked any Maths teachers) :-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I thought maybe you meant that, but I wasn't sure, and in any case I wanted to make clear it's totally worthless to use as a source for anything else (for the reasons I mentioned). :-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Well thanks to you too for a proper conversation. :-) There's a lot of people here wanting to pull out their pitchforks over the smallest thing.