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Beautifully illustrated and amusingly put, sir!
A variant of what you are saying is that AI may once and for all allow us to calculate the true
counterfactualShapley value of scientific contributions.( re: ancestor simulations
I think you are onto something here. Compare the Q hypothesis:
https://twitter.com/dalcy_me/status/1780571900957339771
see also speculations about Zhuangzi hypothesis here )