LessWrong classics: “A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam of a falling apple, would invent general relativity by the third frame” - eviltoast
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    1 year ago

    Never underestimate the rationalist’s ability to write a 5000 word, extremely fanciful short story to make a point that could be compressed into 2 sentences, in a failed attempt to dismiss a strawman

    and of course the story includes a cameo from the writer’s opponents who are naive fools and proceed to doom the universe with their hubris (of disagreeing with the author)