Someone linked to this Twitter thread in the other discussion, from a theorist (one I happen to know a very little, from back in the day): https://mobile.twitte

Someone linked to this Twitter thread in the other discussion, from a theorist (one I happen to know a very little, from back in the day): https://mobile.twitter.com/GordanKrnjaic/status/1379834308844781569 https://mobile.twitter.com/GordanKrnjaic/status/137983430884... Not a lattice theorist, but I can tell you lattice stuff is very hard, and also very cool to be calculating such bare bones nature on a computer. Lattice results can be hard to parse for the outsiders, and I know there is often debate over how trustworthy the results are when it is so hard to check (you don't just build and perform another experiment). That's not to say the people doing it aren't very smart and capable, but it is an unbelievably difficult problem to do, and just like experiments have problems and errors, so to does lattice calculations. Treating them like almost another form of experiment is perhaps best (how does it fit in with other experiments? with theory expectations? how can we know if it is correct or not and correlate with other results? etc.). In other words, theorists and model makers (like work I used to do), may or may not include lattice results based on how they feel about some result (or what it does to their own model....).