On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 01:36:59PM -0800, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > All of this is coming like a tidal wave. A couple of years ago an AI was > given data on the appearance of the sky over several decades. In particular > to positions of planets were given. The system within a few days output not > only the Copernican model but Kepler's laws.
This is unclear. What exactly did the "ai" do? Had it gone throu a solution space of all models explaining celestial bodies, complete with turtles standing on elephants and shaking whenever there is earthquake in Tokyo? Do you have a link to some description of what the experiment was exactly? Because from the point of view of Earth-based observer, planets are just another light points on the night sky, only moving strangely. Such an observer has no way to say if, for example, Mars is really different, or even a planet, or if it is maybe some star which looks for a place to stick and stop forever. Only with telescope one can see that Mars is a disc, and disc changes with time, but periodically, etc etc. But objective observer has no way to say that Mars is a planet based on merely naked eye observations, I am afraid. It took a lot of astrophotography to get some understanding about our neighbourhood. Thus I suspect that "ai" had been fed assumptions about what it was expected to find. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/20220205003428.GB27521%40tau1.ceti.pl.
