Yeah, I’m deliberately not defending the three-frame claim. Maybe that claim is an overstatement, or maybe not, I don’t really care, it doesn’t seem relevant for anything I care about, so I don’t want to spend my time thinking about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Eliezer has sometimes made statements that are much stronger than necessary for his larger point, and those statements turn out to be false upon close examination” is something I already generically believe, e.g. see here.
Nitpick: special relativity says the universe is a flat (“pseudo-Euclidean”) Lorentzian manifold—no curvature. Then GR says “OK but what if there is nonzero curvature?”. I agree with your suggestion that GR is much more “natural” in a situation where you already happen to know that there’s strong evidence for SR, than in a situation where you don’t. Sorry if I previously said anything that contradicted that.
Yeah, I’m deliberately not defending the three-frame claim. Maybe that claim is an overstatement, or maybe not, I don’t really care, it doesn’t seem relevant for anything I care about, so I don’t want to spend my time thinking about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Eliezer has sometimes made statements that are much stronger than necessary for his larger point, and those statements turn out to be false upon close examination” is something I already generically believe, e.g. see here.
Nitpick: special relativity says the universe is a flat (“pseudo-Euclidean”) Lorentzian manifold—no curvature. Then GR says “OK but what if there is nonzero curvature?”. I agree with your suggestion that GR is much more “natural” in a situation where you already happen to know that there’s strong evidence for SR, than in a situation where you don’t. Sorry if I previously said anything that contradicted that.