Ordinary Banana

i did not know about this and I am very stoked about it, good job

I just invented it

Frank Ramsey has some good work on this, btw. (tho tbh "causal neigborhood" may be genuinely new, &edefinitely is one of the more nicely robust analogical framings of the issue I've come across)

basically Ramsey says parsimony is satisfied when the new theory is a "conservative extension" of the existing universe, i.e: minimally disruptive to the neighborhood while still sufficient to explain its object

so "there goes the neighborhood" can be a principled reason to resist a theory even if it is the only good one available at the time - it may be prudent to wait to see if a less disruptive one come along before starting excavation work in everyone's backyards