But I in turn find the background demand for credible references (in their absence) baffling, both in principle and given that it’s not a constraint that non-mainstream research could survive under.
The writings linked don’t exclude the possibility of ‘non-mainstream research’ having experiments, observations, logical proofs, mathematical proofs, etc...
In fact the opposite, that happens every day on the internet, including on LW at least once a week.
The writings linked don’t exclude the possibility of ‘non-mainstream research’ having experiments, observations, logical proofs, mathematical proofs, etc...
In fact the opposite, that happens every day on the internet, including on LW at least once a week.
Did you intend to link to something else?