So, you did mean the Bouman talk I found. As I say, she wasn’t “the leader of that project” and she did not say what you say she did.
The particular things that you claim there are “absurd” are not absurd, it’s just that you don’t understand the procedures they describe and are taking them in the most uncharitable way possible.
(I haven’t listened to the CalTech talk so can’t comment with any authority on what Bouman meant by all the things you quote her as having said there, but it is absolutely not true that “any single one of the statements [] would disqualify an experiment”, and amusingly the single statement you choose to attack there at greatest length is the most obviously not-disqualifying. You say, and I quote, “Most sensible researchers would agree that if the resolution of your experiment is equivalent to taking a picture of an orange on the moon, this means that you cannot do your experiment.”. You appear to be arguing that if something sounds impossibly hard, then you should just assume that it is, literally, impossibly hard and that it can never be done. Once upon a time, “equivalent to speaking in New York and being heard in Berlin” would have sounded like it meant impossibly hard. Once upon a time, “equivalent to adding up a thousand six-digit numbers correctly in a millisecond” would have sounded like it meant impossibly hard. Some things that sound impossibly hard turn out to be possible. The EHT folks claim that taking a picture with orange-on-the-moon resolution turns out to be possible. Of course they could be wrong but they aren’t obviously wrong; what they’re claiming breaks no known laws of physics, for instance. And obviously they aren’t unaware that getting a picture of an orange on the moon is very difficult. So I think it’s downright ridiculous to say that their project is unreasonable because they’re trying to do something that sounds impossibly hard.)
So, you did mean the Bouman talk I found. As I say, she wasn’t “the leader of that project” and she did not say what you say she did.
The particular things that you claim there are “absurd” are not absurd, it’s just that you don’t understand the procedures they describe and are taking them in the most uncharitable way possible.
(I haven’t listened to the CalTech talk so can’t comment with any authority on what Bouman meant by all the things you quote her as having said there, but it is absolutely not true that “any single one of the statements [] would disqualify an experiment”, and amusingly the single statement you choose to attack there at greatest length is the most obviously not-disqualifying. You say, and I quote, “Most sensible researchers would agree that if the resolution of your experiment is equivalent to taking a picture of an orange on the moon, this means that you cannot do your experiment.”. You appear to be arguing that if something sounds impossibly hard, then you should just assume that it is, literally, impossibly hard and that it can never be done. Once upon a time, “equivalent to speaking in New York and being heard in Berlin” would have sounded like it meant impossibly hard. Once upon a time, “equivalent to adding up a thousand six-digit numbers correctly in a millisecond” would have sounded like it meant impossibly hard. Some things that sound impossibly hard turn out to be possible. The EHT folks claim that taking a picture with orange-on-the-moon resolution turns out to be possible. Of course they could be wrong but they aren’t obviously wrong; what they’re claiming breaks no known laws of physics, for instance. And obviously they aren’t unaware that getting a picture of an orange on the moon is very difficult. So I think it’s downright ridiculous to say that their project is unreasonable because they’re trying to do something that sounds impossibly hard.)