shminux comments on Litany of Instrumentarski - Less Wrong
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Utility is not the same thing as testability. Your color detector may return the same result when pointed at snow as when pointed at a sheet of paper, but you may decide to call the former "black" and the latter "white" for utilitarian reasons. Which is quite common IRL.