Sophisticated Snake Oil - Or: How Stupid Do You Think The Internet Is?

in #comedy6 years ago

Bastet

This is what the 21st Century has brought us - People being People. People convincing People to believe Unbelievable Bullshit.

I hereby present:

MY THOUGHTS

While Clicking on What YouTube Thinks I Should Watch

Or:

A RESPONSE TO THIS LITTLE NUGGET OF INTERNET



At least these folks did us the courtesy of joking about the fact that they're lying, whilst trying to distract us from the awful math-sorcery.

Dear QGR (Don't Say It Like a Word)

"Quigger" (Like Tigger but Qualm)

Don't promise me the ol' Johnny-Pie-Face and then not deliver as if you were lying when you promised. That hurt my feelings. Also, if mathematics is the backbone of your argument, you seem to shoot and cut all the 'technical' sections like... well... like you don't actually want us to engage with the logic. You're counting on people who listen for the conclusion, not the argument.

"Here is Math. You won't understand it. Look at the Man Looking Bored With These Pages."
"According to the Math, There is Thing. Thing is Important."

"Here is Physics. It does things. We don't understand. Look at how pretty the patterns are."
"According to Physics, Things happen. Things are important."

"Don't Worry, here is a Man. He is Grey, coz Brain. He Will Say Some Stuff about the Thing and Things. Things That Seem... As Good As Any Other Greek I Suppose. Look... You don't need to understand it, just wait for the bit where we cue the "Mind Blown" bit. You'll know how to feel about all this then. Man has got you covered. It's his face in the video."

Thing from the Math, and Things in the Physics
Keep Doing Things We Don't Understand
Until We Do, Then It's Oh Soooooo Grand!!!

But until Then, we have to suffer these kinds of fools.

If the research is legitimate (and it could be) then tell the people who produced this video to get ELI 5 on Reddit to write you some explainer clips based on your findings and whatever else is published. Good research may be tedious to do, but that does not mean it should be impossible to engage with.

It seems to me that your film is about how God exists and we are indeed, to quote Bo Burnam, "a bad game of Sims".

Whether it's true or not needs to be subject to peer-review. It's a bitch, but it's a requirement.

Scrutiny. Like a colonoscopy - mostly a pain in the ass, but when you find something unhealthy in there, you at least know that it's there. Then you can kill it with fire, (or poison. or radiation - but not too little radiation, because that will give it cancer - can you imagine having to deal with cancer that has cancer?) or cut it out with a laser coz Mr. Man is from the future of the past, with his Stuff about Thing and Things.

Or don't make cancer jokes. They're not cool. Neither is the way we treat homeless people, but we can still Rag on a Bum from Time to Time. It's fine. They're homeless. It doesn't matter.

Oh, I met a Homeless Guy - Once (That was what his name sounding like in my delicate, colonial ears), and he told me Stuff about Thing and Things too. It was a very similar experience to watching that there video.

Which leads me to the following conclusion, based on my evidence presented.

Either this video is lying to me, or Once was Jesus, and I'm going to Hell for Putting a Receipt from a Starbucks inside his Coffee Cup, keeping him talking while I slowly backed up far enough to start running the fuck away.

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