I disagree, because I think the intuition that leads people to accept the tower argument is not that if there’s a drift component, it’s negligible. In fact, I think people would accept the argument even for a planet sufficiently small to make the component non-negligible. The point is that the people formulated the tower argument had the right intuition but used it to defend the wrong view.
The intuition that leads them to accept the tower argument doesn’t include an explicit step “I am going to think about the drift componenet. Okay, I decided to ignore it”, but people don’t think out all steps that way. At some point they will implicitly assume that the drift component is negligible (and they will be correct).
I disagree, because I think the intuition that leads people to accept the tower argument is not that if there’s a drift component, it’s negligible. In fact, I think people would accept the argument even for a planet sufficiently small to make the component non-negligible. The point is that the people formulated the tower argument had the right intuition but used it to defend the wrong view.
The intuition that leads them to accept the tower argument doesn’t include an explicit step “I am going to think about the drift componenet. Okay, I decided to ignore it”, but people don’t think out all steps that way. At some point they will implicitly assume that the drift component is negligible (and they will be correct).