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▲ thaumasiotes 4 hours ago

> Someone who knows that 1 + 1 = 2 will not decide that it's suddenly 3 unless we start accounting for health problems.

But this is plainly false. This kind of unforced error occurs all the time.

For example, once when I was in high school I traced an error in my math homework to an intermediate calculation of "2 + 2" as being "3". There was no reason.

What we can say about humans is that, if they know that 1 + 1 = 2, (a) they are unlikely to change their mind about this in any kind of lasting or permanent way, and (b) the rate at which they will mistakenly produce other values for 1 + 1 is very low. But it will happen occasionally, and when it does happen, "they just suddenly decided on the wrong value" is an extremely accurate description of what that looks like.