Eugine_Nier comments on Why is Mencius Moldbug so popular on Less Wrong? [Answer: He's not.] - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 23 November 2012 05:46:03PM 2 points [-]

If I replace "economic variables" with "astronomy" what part of this sentence changes in implication?

One can do controlled experiments in physics here on Earth and apply the results to astronomy.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 23 November 2012 05:57:59PM 1 point [-]

So that's true, but until the late 1700s (essentially post Newton) no one had any capacity to do so (because no ideas anyone had connected the two at all in a useful way). Would this sort of claim then been valid in 1650?