Nice post! By putting the burden of proof for refuting a model on the proposer of the model, you neatly sidestep a tortuous conversation. It reminds me of what my mentor Gerry Sussman used to say when confronted with these kinds of arguments: "That theory is useless, because it's not even wrong!"
Nice post! By putting the burden of proof for refuting a model on the proposer of the model, you neatly sidestep a tortuous conversation. It reminds me of what my mentor Gerry Sussman used to say when confronted with these kinds of arguments: "That theory is useless, because it's not even wrong!"