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Maybe it's one way to ask for clarification on the problem?

I do that, I try to find loopholes and edge cases to better define my mental model and then test them against the knowledge of people who know better than me.

I figure GGP is trying to do the same, and not sending in a paper to Nature right now.

Unrelated to physics, but amusingly in big companies the opposite seems to be true.

For problems cited as hard, the first pretty obvious thought is a bright light into intellectual darkness

I don't know where and I don't know when, but I'm going to quote you.

I believe you have just coined the definitive formulation of this principle. Would you like to name it? I humbly suggest "dTal's razor".