It's not all it's cracked up to be.
Maybe experimental science isn't the only way to crack that nut. Perhaps it can be done with religion, or meditation, or pure logic, or computer simulation or mathematical models (after all, geometry and calculus are certainly valid but they are not sciences based on experiment).
But SDAI has no consistent and thought out plan or discipline or tradition. He makes it up as he goes along, and his twisting of the nomeclature not only demonstrates he's blowing smoke, it demostrates
he knows perfectly well he's blowing smoke. He's no fool, he's doing it on purpose. And he's doing it for a reason.
Ain't that right, Techie?