Zack_M_Davis comments on Reference class of the unclassreferenceable - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Zack_M_Davis 15 January 2010 05:18:17AM 11 points [-]

But the fact that no perpetual motion machine has been built is not the reason we believe the feat to be impossible. We have independent, well-understood reasons for thinking the feat impossible.

Comment author: Unknowns 15 January 2010 05:24:30AM -2 points [-]

As Robin Hanson has pointed out, thermodynamics is not well understood at all.

Comment author: JGWeissman 15 January 2010 05:55:24AM 0 points [-]

Conservation of energy is more basic than thermodynamics.