Unless I misunderstand something, the Class Project post was a falsifiable model, and it has been falsified. Time to discard it?
It's a work of fiction, not a model.
komponisto appears to be treating it in this discussion as a model, and I would assume that's the context shminux is speaking in.
Today's post, Class Project was originally published on 31 May 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
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