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I enjoy reading his blog as well. One of my favorite posts is: https://www.iquilezles.org/blog/?p=4765 https://www.iquilezles.org/blog/?p=4765 "Though – at so
by jonnydubowsky 6y ago
I enjoy reading his blog as well. One of my favorite posts is:
https://www.iquilezles.org/blog/?p=4765 https://www.iquilezles.org/blog/?p=4765
"Though – at some level, all facts that you know are untrue.
1. To a toddler, Mickey Mouse dancing in a film is a character that undoubtedly exist in front them.
2. But that is false, everybody knows a film is just lots of “images”, right?
3. Well, that’s false too, to a nerd images are “a matrix of tiny colored squared pixels”
4. But that is false too, a professional programmer knows pixels are not squares but point-samples trying their best at filtering an analog signal”
So, while all are partial truths in a given context, they are also false at the next level of understanding.
These conflicts of false truths usually gets resolved easily: most of us rarely enjoy knowing more than one or two levels of truth to any particular topic anyways, and ignorance makes happiness. On the other hand, an experienced communicator can adjust her speech and pick the right truth based on the audience she’s talking to, assuming there’s little variance in the audience’s profiles.
But, what happens when something needs to be communicated to a huge audience of varying levels of education or interest in a topic that is important to everybody? Say a nation wide message. When you address a disparate audience of millions that need an explanations, how do you choose the level of reality you going to operate in; which of all the false truths are you going to employ to convey your message?"