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A claim can only live where checking it is cheap enough. Everywhere else on this map, claims die or mislead.

Map of claims by how much they claim and what they cost to check How much it claims What it costs to check
FIG. 1. Where a claim can live. Claims that cost more to check than they are worth drift into hype or go unread. After Tegmark, "On the dimensionality of spacetime", arXiv gr-qc/9702052 (1997), Fig. 1.

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