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This video of Veritasium just came out yesterday. Coincidences !? I THINK NOT XD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6iQrh2TK98 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6i

• TomNomNom 3y ago
  A ~20 minute video on a particular number cropping up all over the place and not one mention of the frequency illusion / Baader–Meinhof phenomenon feels at least a little bit disingenuous. I don't doubt that it crops up a lot when people are asked for a random number between 1 and 100 (especially if, as per the video, you ignore 1, 2, 7, 42, 69, 73, and 77, and sometimes 99 and 100), but it's pretty disappointing for a big channel based around science like Veritasium to not even mention that if you became obsessed with and went hunting for special properties of a different number between 1 and 100 you'd almost certainly find them.
  • jerf 3y ago
    "The Law of Fives states simply that: ALL THINGS HAPPEN IN FIVES, OR ARE DIVISIBLE BY OR MULTIPLES OF FIVE, OR ARE SOMEHOW DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY APPROPRIATE TO FIVE. The Law of Fives is never wrong. In the Erisian Archives is an old memo from Omar to Mal-2: 'I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look.'" - Principia Discordia, https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Principia_Discordia#THE_LAW_OF_FIVES https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Principia_Discordia#THE_LAW_OF...
  • Sporktacular 3y ago
    It's not the first time Veritasium's scientific credentials could be questioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM0aohBfUTc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM0aohBfUTc
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• perebaj 3y ago
  WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?
• theNJR 3y ago
  I had the same reaction!
• Havoc 3y ago
  Small world