A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam, would invent General Relativity as a hypothesis—perhaps not the dominant hypothesis, compared to Newtonian mechanics, but still a hypothesis under direct consideration—by the time it had seen the third frame of a falling apple.
Why would it? It’s so much more complicated than the Newtonian mechanics, and requires extra empirical data (finite speed of light, mass-independence of free fall and probably more), not accessible from just 3 frames.
Why would it? It’s so much more complicated than the Newtonian mechanics, and requires extra empirical data (finite speed of light, mass-independence of free fall and probably more), not accessible from just 3 frames.