RolfAndreassen comments on Rationality quotes: March 2010 - Less Wrong
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This would only be relevant if you were accelerating relative to the Earth. The scale measures the normal force keeping you at rest relative to the Earth's center; the force being exerted on the Earth does not change that. (Modulo the orbital-velocity argument, which I'll respond to separately.)