J_Thomas comments on Protein Reinforcement and DNA Consequentialism - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 November 2007 01:34AM

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Comment author: J_Thomas 13 November 2007 12:06:00PM 0 points [-]

"If we want to know how objects fall, though, we shouldn't ask people with the socially-awarded status of authority, we should look at falling things - like bricks."

But now we don't do much of that, we read physics books and work out the homework. There isn't time to repeat all the experiments. When it comes to supercolliders etc it would take years to work out the math and deal with the confounding variables and such.