I don’t think this distinction is robust enough to rely on as much of a defensive property. I think it’s probably not that hard to think “I probably would have tried something in direction X, or direction Y”, and then gather lots of bits about how well the clusters X and Y work.
My intuition also tells me that the distinction might just lack the necessary robustness. I do wonder if Buck’s intuition is different. In any case, it would be very interesting to know his opinion.
I don’t think this distinction is robust enough to rely on as much of a defensive property. I think it’s probably not that hard to think “I probably would have tried something in direction X, or direction Y”, and then gather lots of bits about how well the clusters X and Y work.
My intuition also tells me that the distinction might just lack the necessary robustness. I do wonder if Buck’s intuition is different. In any case, it would be very interesting to know his opinion.