Comment by krick

I don't think what Aaronson says is fair and it's very easy (and kinda rude) way to dismiss an opinion you don't agree with, but also I don't think it applies to your post. You are questioning the implementation, it seems, he says that there are people who doubt the theory is correct in the first place. 17th century physics didn't predict the existence of that sphere of yours, and it's a very practical question if such sphere could be manufactured or not (and it could've turned out either way with given priors).

Instead, what Aaronson refers to is probably more like people saying "planets moving in epicycles are a nice mathematical formalism, but mathematical formalism is not reality" — you know, the kind of thing you say when you want to doubt, but not take full intellectual responsibility for your doubts...