There were a bunch of back-and-forth comments on this answer of the question Beating the uncertainty principle for musicians
I'm not really concerned about the deletion of my comments, I know the deal. What I don't understand is why a response to one of those comments was left on the answer. That comment addresses me and strongly implies a strawman argument that I never made and would never make. I'm sure this is just an oversight. But without the rest of the context, a reader might (justifiably) assume that I was actually arguing something that, in reality, I don't believe at all.
Should I flag such comments? I don't think the person who wrote it had ill-intent. That is, I don't think they intended to completely misrepresent what I was saying to make it seem ridiculous. I think it's more likely they didn't understand. But regardless of the intent, that's what it does. Is flagging an appropriate course of action here?
For context the comment in question is:
@JimmyJames a clock or carrier synchronizer, be it in a radar or in a comm system, trying to tune to the received signal cannot avoid the "uncertainty principle," no matter how much one wishes it to be so, just cannot...
Without context, it would appear that I was arguing that you could 'avoid the uncertainty principle'. I'm not even sure I know exactly what that means but it wasn't at all related to my concern about the answer. The concern is that the answer suggests (to me, the author never clarified) that because two physical phenomena can be modelled using the same mathematical approaches, that means they are the same (or related) physical phenomena which logically leads to mathematical Platonism. I could have misunderstood but nothing about the authors responses to my comments suggested otherwise to me.
In any event, all context is gone. Which is fine, I've resigned myself to accepting that 'physics is just math' is considered an acceptable answer here. I just don't think it serves anyone to leave a comment refuting an argument that never existed.
