Inaugural post

[injygo]

This is a post intended to lessen the activation energy necessary for me to post. Note that I'm still figuring out tags, comments, notifications, etc.

To help me figure out the comment system, please leave a brief comment about exactly one of the following:

• your favorite animal
• the last book you fell in love with and why
• your opinion of eliezer yudkowsky
• whether you love the color of the sky

Comments

[youzicha]

Are you saying that there is not enough resolution to deduce either Newtonian gravity or general relativity, or just not enough resolution to distinguish them? If it's the latter, then I don't think this is in contradiction with the quoted passage.

[thirqual]

See the comment above for a bit more depth in the explanation. There are several other problems in the way for deducing Newtonan gravity from 3 stills of a falling object (e.g., you really really need non-linear motions to build that model with any degree of satisfaction, contrary to the popular story about retreating from plague and head trauma by fruit).

The argument one could oppose that is not really in contradiction with the quoted passage is the one from sophistication/complexity, as Eliezer allowed for "perhaps not the dominant".