Humanity has fallen into an ontological divot in the search space. This has epistemic considerations due to ontological commitments (Duhem-Quine indispensability).
This probably sounds a bit vague so I’ll use a metaphor. Imagine that the sapir-worf hypothesis was true and that the world had already gone through a cycle of amplification of newspeak, including screening off the part of the language that would cause someone to independently reinvent the sapir-worf hypothesis.
Humanity has fallen into an ontological divot in the search space. This has epistemic considerations due to ontological commitments (Duhem-Quine indispensability).
This probably sounds a bit vague so I’ll use a metaphor. Imagine that the sapir-worf hypothesis was true and that the world had already gone through a cycle of amplification of newspeak, including screening off the part of the language that would cause someone to independently reinvent the sapir-worf hypothesis.