MagnetoHydroDynamics comments on Torture vs. Dust Specks - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 October 2007 02:50AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 September 2012 07:27:01PM -2 points [-]

If getting hit by a dust speck has u = 0, then air pressure great enough to crush you has u = 0.

Comment author: mantis 11 September 2012 04:20:20AM 0 points [-]

Nope, that doesn't follow; multiplication isn't the only possible operation that can be applied to this scale.