> In my experience reading scientific papers, "we conclude" is just a pretentious old-timey way to say "I think". It never actually meant anything more rigorous

> In my experience reading scientific papers, "we conclude" is just a pretentious old-timey way to say "I think". It never actually meant anything more rigorous, it was just the norm to write more pretentiously and inflate the certainty of conclusions. A person of a certain age remembers specifically being taught to obscure weak I-statements with impersonal statements that one could conclude are more rational if they do not think about them too hard.