• save_the_humans@leminal.space
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    3 months ago

    The dude makes some pretty legit videos. He has a PhD in physics education research. Using YouTube is just a sign of the time we live in.

    Mathematics is, in a sense, about abstraction and generalization, and the video covers an ideal, or set of axioms, you’d want from a voting system. This perfect system was proven to be impossible and the researcher was granted the Nobel prize in economics. In short, there can be no perfect voting system. You can also say mathematics is about proofs, and, no matter how unintuitive something might seem, it leaves no room for doubt. It doesn’t hardly matter if the source comes from a YouTube video.