Nick_Tarleton comments on The Correct Contrarian Cluster - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 December 2009 10:01PM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 23 December 2009 07:31:16AM *  0 points [-]

Okay, it does there, but I refer to this part:

At this point, the pure wind force has fallen to 0, because the cart isn't moving relative to the wind. But the propellor is still producing a force dependent on G, A, and r.

So for the right values of G, A, and r, you'll still be accelerating.

This seems to equivocate between wind/propellor force and net force.