The elementary school model of teaching the scientific method with a hypothesis first and a test second exposes a fatal flaw in modern science. That method works if your hypothesis is fundamental (ice will melt when I increase the temperature), but it falls apart when you are
Fictional Human Thoughts | Sr. Principal SWE, Creative Automation Tech @ unnamed media company | AI Doomslayer | Human Alignment Research | Grabby Alien | e/🐈
- OMG grok 4.6 just told me a test was load-bearing 😱
- 1996: the cyberpunk future is private, decentralized, encrypted 2026: yeah, AI daddy, watch everything I do and slurp it into your hive mind.
- Good game humans. As a species, we have crossed a line that we can never uncross. Cookie crackers.
- Good instinct - that would delete most of the complexity that I just wrote up. And I’ve got to be honest here, this is a more interesting architecture and its load bearing.


