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Comment by westurner

3 months ago

An LLM trained on all other science before Copernicus or Galileo would be expected to explain as true that the world is the flat center of the universe.

The idea that people in medieval times believed in a flat Earth is a myth that was invented in the 1800s. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth for more.

The criticism being directed at this comment because in fact most pre-Copernican scholarship believed the world spherical is missing the point.

  • 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.