Your original post asked me to put a lot of effort into understanding a neurological study. This study may very well be a hoax, which you hadn’t even bothered checking despite including it in your post.
I’m not sure how much energy I feel like putting into processing your post, at least until you’ve confirmed that you’ve purged all the hoaxy stuff and the only bits remaining are good.
“Unless you can demonstrate that it’s easy” was not an ask of Steven (or you, or any other reader of the post) to demonstrate this, because regardless of whether DishBrain is hoax or not, that would be large research project worth of work to demonstrate this: “easiness” refers anyway to the final result (“this specific model of neuronal interaction easily explains the culture of neurons playing pong”), not to the process of obtaining this result.
So, I thought it is clear that this phrase is a rhetorical interjection.
And, again, as I said above, the entire first argument by Steven is niche and not central (as well as our lengthy discussion of my reply to it), so feel free to skip it.
Your original post asked me to put a lot of effort into understanding a neurological study. This study may very well be a hoax, which you hadn’t even bothered checking despite including it in your post.
I’m not sure how much energy I feel like putting into processing your post, at least until you’ve confirmed that you’ve purged all the hoaxy stuff and the only bits remaining are good.
“Unless you can demonstrate that it’s easy” was not an ask of Steven (or you, or any other reader of the post) to demonstrate this, because regardless of whether DishBrain is hoax or not, that would be large research project worth of work to demonstrate this: “easiness” refers anyway to the final result (“this specific model of neuronal interaction easily explains the culture of neurons playing pong”), not to the process of obtaining this result.
So, I thought it is clear that this phrase is a rhetorical interjection.
And, again, as I said above, the entire first argument by Steven is niche and not central (as well as our lengthy discussion of my reply to it), so feel free to skip it.