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		jonnycomputer 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritua... The criticism being directed at this comment because in fact most pre-Copernican scholarship believed the world spherical is missing the point.

westurner 9 months ago [–]

This. If we (without AI, even) extrapolate from the trajectory of a baseball, we would say that it would continue towards roughly the center of the earth but it doesn't.

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