I think I see where I crossed it over on a layman interpretation. My apologies there.

While I agree with your sentiment on the whole... we do get some measurements on a black hole precisely because it affects things outside of itself. I'll agree with the rest as I've been studying ai. We definitely can and often do understand the paths. The reality is it would take us far longer to go through it all or ai would be pointless.

This we do not understand is complete bs. Just we can't run through the math in any reasonable time frame. Effectively we know how, just we don't know which exact path without marking it... which we can and will do sometimes.

Remember we look at where it will be a few papers down the road.