“This comment will be downvoted” is a testable prediction, agreed. ”This comment will be downvoted because it’s not a capitulation” is not a testable prediction. Regardless of its testability, it is also an attempt to impose a specific interpretation on all downvotes. It asserts that my downvote is an expression of the desire for chaosmosis to capitulate, rather than an expression of the desire to have fewer comments like his on LW.
“This comment will be downvoted” is a testable prediction, agreed.
”This comment will be downvoted because it’s not a capitulation” is not a testable prediction.
Regardless of its testability, it is also an attempt to impose a specific interpretation on all downvotes. It asserts that my downvote is an expression of the desire for chaosmosis to capitulate, rather than an expression of the desire to have fewer comments like his on LW.