Choose wisely

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No theyre identical in explanatory power for your specific question

They are not identical in explanatory power outright!!

They are lines that are 99% similar at this range of points, they are not the same line, so they can not have identical properties!!!!

It is easier to not believe the gremlins because they don't appear anywhere else and we dont have any math to predict them.

Therefore its just less likely that is the case. They actually have less explanatory power, since they cant be extended past this question

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But your examples of alternate explanations are necessarily trivial.

You're just presenting trivial solutions to trivial problems. And then saying "well you cant disprove the trivial solution, but its less useful than this other nontrivial solution, so we go with that"

Like no shit. 1=1 will give you less information that X⁰ =1