Removing something critical and seeing what happens is a methodology used by Musk in all his companies: remove LIDAR from self driving car, remove flame trench from spaceship launch pad, etc. Results may vary.
Ed: among the ways millions of lives could be lost: losing control of our nuclear arsenal or nuclear materials due to haphazardly firing people responsible for maintaining them. Bungling the response to the next pandemic, due to haphazardly firing people, cutting science funding and deleting inconvenient data. Starvation and disease from ceasing aid around the world. There's also the wars likely to result from the collapse of trust in the US as a security partner, but I suppose it's not correct to blame that on DOGE per se, even if it's an extension of the same principle.
That’s possible, however, it’s possible it’ll give a chance to remove autocrats who have suppressed the scientific method in favor of their prevailing opinions or preferences.
There will be a painful period but it could rejuvenate the systems.
It seems pretty clear to me at least why it would lead to circular arguments.
There is no such mechanism.
If there was then the vast majority of political debates on HN wouldn’t even exist.
Readers are just going to assume it’s random noise, or at least indistinguishable from noise, from a rando on the internet.
Sufficient chimpanzees with keyboards, or an LLM, can also type out every comment you’ve ever written, including the last few.
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.
Are you ever going to directly answer the previous few questions?
Which would be practically meaningless without some attached non-zero credibility.