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by amelius 638 days ago
> there's always a nonzero chance of hallucination. There's also a non-zero chance that macroscale objects can do quantum tunnelling, but no one is arguing that we "need to live with this" fact.

True, but it is defeatist and goes against a good engineering/scientific mindset.

With this attitude we'd still be practicing alchemy.