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48 - Postgame ft. Matt Taibbi (Patreon)

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2018-07-18 01:11:32
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48 - Postgame ft. Matt Taibbi

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Bijou Smith

Nice to hear you are writing a book about the IDW. Last night I thought someone should write a book on the intellectual dark web and if no one else is then I would start it myself by making it GNU Free Document Licensed and open sourced (since I do not have the time to do all the necessary research myself). The reason I thought someone had to do this was a "last straw" sort of situation (althogh that is admittedly disingenuous since there really have been alread too many last straws when you dif in to IDW material)... anyhow, this particular last straw was a clip of Jordna Peterson lecturing on ancient art which depicted twisted braids, and he says something like he believes this is a depiction of DNA. This was posted on youtube by a dude with a channel "Genetically Modified Skeptic" here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIfLTQAKKfg&t=346s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIfLTQAKKfg&t=346s</a> It is hilarious. Not only does Peterson in a later public speech withdraw his claim of "strong belief" to merely "a guess", but what this youtuber failed to realise is that the twisted braid in the ancient art he displays art is not in fact a double helix structure. I doubt there is anything more elementarily embarrassing for Peterson than this clip. Proper double helix structures are actually very rare in nature outside of cellular life (one instances is <a href="https://www.space.com/2157-cosmic-dna-double-helix-spotted-space.html)" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.space.com/2157-cosmic-dna-double-helix-spotted-space.html)</a> and certainly I have never seen a double helix in any pre-twentieth century art.

Bijou Smith

BTW a simple way to tell when you might have a double helix rather than som other braid (the lazy mental way) is to imagine grabbing the ends of the braid and trying to pull them apart, if they get stuck then you do not have a double helix. A double helix will unwind easily.

Bijou Smith

@49:30 ... redundancy protects information integrity, so hell yeah to paper ballots, but also eventually (when the tech matures and can be funded publicly) in parallel with a public ledger blockchain system for election ballots which scans and counts but anonymises votes and gives the voter a simple display or receipt with a (maybe one time use) password that a voter can then look up on the blockchain to check their vote was recorded correctly and counted. Simple statistical discrepancies between paper ballot errors and the blockchain would be the objective basis for recounts or redo's. BTW: thanks for getting Taibbi on, he never disappoints.