If you drop a teacup from a height of 2m then s = 1/2 at^2 says t ~= 0.6 seconds which at 10000x becomes 6000 seconds or 1h40m. If the figure for Nick Bostrom is "several hours" then he must be, I dunno, attending tea parties on stilts or something.
(Of course this is mere pedantry. But it seems like the sort of thing it should have been easy to get right.)
You reminded me of something he wrote in the acknowledgements:
The membrane that has surrounded the writing process has been fairly permeable. Many concepts and ideas generated while working on the book have been allowed to seep out and have become part of a wider conversation; and, of course, numerous insights originating from the outside while the book was underway have been incorporated into the text. I have tried to be somewhat diligent with the citation apparatus, but the influences are too many to fully document.
Citations are one of the most impor...
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