army1987 comments on The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 September 2013 09:16:22AM 3 points [-]

The gravitational pull from a one-gram switch ten meters away is around 6 * 10-16 m/s2. That's around half a neutron diameter per second per second, far below thermal noise, but way above the Planck level.

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The switch's flip does change the fundamental particles of your body and brain. It nudges them by whole neutron diameters away from where they would have otherwise been.

<nitpick>But when you flip the switch, it doesn't disappear altogether, it just gets displaced by a few millimetres, so the number you care about is this, which is hundreds of times smaller.</nitpick>