(04-04-2025, 07:08 AM)quintessentone Wrote: ...it can be assumed? really?
What I want to see is ...it has now established/proven that ...
That's not how the game is played. You set up a procedure, observe the results, enumerate the possible interpretations, solicit feedback, document it, but in the end you're always assuming based on prior practice and theoretical modelling, even when everyone agrees. If you say something like "it is proven", someone will come along with objections like "ah ha but you haven't
proven that invisible machine elves are not manipulating the results! just because we have no
evidence they exist doesn't mean they don't!" or "well sir it hasn't been established that everything you're seeing through that microscope there isn't a projection of the simulation matrix!". Some objections are plausible, many are not.
Science is assumption, really. We can merely hope that the trust in that assumption asymptotically approaches whatever truth is, or at the very least, utility. At a minimum, consistency. If done right, it seems to.
But about those lens-twisting elves... hmm I think I have a thread to write.