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Beliefs are justified by their Solomonoff-nature. That is the core of Bayesianism. Science is bookkeeping.
It bothers me that "bookkeeping" is given a disparaging tone.
I see it as disparaging because I regard it as something a computer ought to be doing. If a human is doing bookkeeping and they aren't doing it for a reason like 'to practice' or 'to understand better', then something is very wrong.
Just because something is a job for computers does not mean that it's not a critical job.
Maintaining a nuclear core at a constant temperature is a very critical job, but I would regard as a dystopia any world where all cores are so maintained by a human and not a microcontroller.
We are in agreement on that. My point is that the quote "everything else [in scientific rigor] is bookkeeping" conveys the idea that it's not important, not that it isn't a human's job.