[jjk166]

Black box systems are incredibly common. By definition, there isn't anything readily apparent from the outside. You haven't shown that to be absurd, you only showed that if you can see enough of the interior of a black box, it is no longer a black box.

You complain that the author's logic will lead to creating complicated hidden variable theories but that's exactly what the author is advocating. While there will always be some ever more convoluted model to explain results, any given model is testable, whereas assuming there is nothing to model is not testable.

[lmm]

> Black box systems are incredibly common. By definition, there isn't anything readily apparent from the outside.

Citation needed. The author is trying to claim that this kind of extremely opaque black box system is common (at least, common enough that we should take the possibility seriously), but their only argument is a made-up example that falls apart under the slightest scrutiny.

> While there will always be some ever more convoluted model to explain results, any given model is testable, whereas assuming there is nothing to model is not testable.

The claim that Russell's Teapot exists in any given orbit is testable, whereas assuming Russell's Teapot doesn't exist anywhere is not testable.