army1987 comments on Rationality Quotes April 2014 - LessWrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 April 2014 02:56:43PM *  3 points [-]

I think it's because humans can easily confuse the pull caused by gravity with a pull caused by acceleration.

It's not just humans -- the basic idea of general relativity is that (short of looking out or detecting tidal effects) it's impossible in principle to tell them apart.