[andrewflnr]

Truthfully, I hold those ideas a little more confidently than purely "for the purposes of discussion", but I suspect you at least understand that the real-world usage of "hypothesis" is quite broad.

I'm kind of tickled at the idea that a "hypothesis" is some hyper-specific thing with trappings of "credibility", and that anything less would be an insult, like we're not all just a bunch of nerds arguing on the internet. It's also kind of sad, though. This is why computer people need liberal arts education.

[MichaelZuo]

Still seems closer to noise/LLM ravings than substance.

Are you ever going to directly answer the previous few questions?

[andrewflnr]

I did, comprehensively, but you're apparently not smart enough to understand.

[MichaelZuo]

Are those who downvoted enough to grey your comment out… not “smart enough” either?