This post is well over a decade old, yet no one noticed that in 1984, Winston actually writes that “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows.” And in being tortured, he grants that 2+2 = 5 Eliezer has introduced a different sum, which makes the same point, but it’s not from Orwell’s 1984
This post is well over a decade old, yet no one noticed that in 1984, Winston actually writes that “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
And in being tortured, he grants that 2+2 = 5
Eliezer has introduced a different sum, which makes the same point, but it’s not from Orwell’s 1984