army1987 comments on Intelligence explosion in organizations, or why I'm not worried about the singularity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 29 December 2012 08:39:49PM 1 point [-]

I gave multiple examples and specified the field interested in how such a naive formulation is completely wrong; please ask better questions.

Comment author: [deleted] 29 December 2012 08:51:03PM *  0 points [-]

I have never heard of any observation showing that gravitation as described by general relativity (and, so long as you aren't very close to something very massive and aren't travelling at a sizeable fraction of the speed of light, excellently approximated by Newton's law) might have "exceptions" on Solar System-scale, except possibly the Pioneer anomaly (for which there is a very plausible candidate explanation) and similar. When I read "errors" I hoped you meant measurement uncertainties, but I can't make sense of the rest of the paragraph assuming you did.

Comment author: gwern 29 December 2012 09:09:44PM 0 points [-]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science#Duhem-Quine_thesis may help you a little bit. You should probably read the entire article, since you seem to think there were no errors or exceptions, and that some exceptions could disprove a power law.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 December 2012 02:37:05AM *  1 point [-]

I think I know what you mean, but if I'm right, "gravity has exceptions" is, let's say, a very bizarre way of putting it.

EDIT: yeah, you meant what i thought you meant.

Comment author: AlexMennen 29 December 2012 10:16:14PM 1 point [-]

There are no examples of failures of general relativity in that entire article. So far, of the two of you, only army1987 has given an example of an even slightly perplexing observation.

Comment author: gwern 29 December 2012 10:18:45PM 0 points [-]

Why should I give one? I never brought up relativity, army1987 did.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 December 2012 02:31:48AM 1 point [-]

You brought up the Laws Of Gravity (capitals yours), which among insiders are known as the Einstein field equations of general relativity.