This meme uses a bell curve to show how people with different IQ scores think about the idea that “math is consistent.” On the left, a person with low IQ says, “You kannot proof thatt maths is konsistent,” with bad spelling. In the middle, a person with average IQ is angry and says, “Maths is consistent and I can prove it!” They are emotional and serious. On the right, a person with high IQ calmly says, “You cannot prove that maths is consistent.”
This is funny because the simple person and the smart person say something similar — that you cannot prove math is always right — but for very different reasons. The middle person is trying too hard to prove something that the very smart person already knows is impossible, because of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. This meme makes a smart joke about how deep thinking can look similar to silly thinking, while average thinking tries to over-explain things.
