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I am pretty sure that "the Earth orbited the Sun 1,000 years ago", and I think I could make a pretty solid argument about it from human observations of the beha

I am pretty sure that "the Earth orbited the Sun 1,000 years ago", and I think I could make a pretty solid argument about it from human observations of the behavior of, well, everything, around and after the year AD 1025. It seems that there was an alternating occurences of "days" and "nights" of approximatively the same length as today. A comparison of the ecosystem and civilization of the time vs. ours are fairly consistent with the hypothesis that the Earth hasn't seen the kind of major gravity disturbances that would have happened if our planet only got captured into Sun orbit within the last 1,000 years. If your AI rates my claim as an error, it might have too many false positives to be of much use, don't you think?

borgdefenser 2y ago
Of course you could when even a 1st grader knows this is true. You have to be delusional to believe this would be so easy though a 1000 years ago when not only everyone would be saying you are wrong but completely insane, maybe even such a heretic to be worthy of being burned at the stake. Certainly worthy of house arrest for such ungodly thoughts when everyone knows man is the center of the universe and naturally the sun revolves around the earth.
- graemep 2y ago
  A few centuries later but people did not think Copernicus was insane or a heretic. > everyone knows man is the center of the universe and naturally the sun revolves around the earth more at the bottom of the universe. They saw the earth as corrupt, closest to hell, and it was hell at the centre. Outside the earth the planets and stars were thought pure and perfect.
- sebastiennight 2y ago
  Ah, I'm sorry, I misread the parent post as: > What would the AI say to someone who claimed (today) that "the earth orbited the sun 1000 years ago"? When I now understand that they meant > What would the AI say to someone who claimed, 1000 years ago, that "the earth orbited the sun" ? Which makes way more sense.

borgdefenser 2y ago

Of course you could when even a 1st grader knows this is true. You have to be delusional to believe this would be so easy though a 1000 years ago when not only everyone would be saying you are wrong but completely insane, maybe even such a heretic to be worthy of being burned at the stake. Certainly worthy of house arrest for such ungodly thoughts when everyone knows man is the center of the universe and naturally the sun revolves around the earth.

graemep 2y ago
A few centuries later but people did not think Copernicus was insane or a heretic. > everyone knows man is the center of the universe and naturally the sun revolves around the earth more at the bottom of the universe. They saw the earth as corrupt, closest to hell, and it was hell at the centre. Outside the earth the planets and stars were thought pure and perfect.
sebastiennight 2y ago
Ah, I'm sorry, I misread the parent post as: > What would the AI say to someone who claimed (today) that "the earth orbited the sun 1000 years ago"? When I now understand that they meant > What would the AI say to someone who claimed, 1000 years ago, that "the earth orbited the sun" ? Which makes way more sense.