gwern comments on New Year's Predictions Thread - Less Wrong

18 Post author: MichaelVassar 30 December 2009 09:39PM

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Comment author: Kevin 01 January 2010 06:17:37AM *  1 point [-]

By 2020, an Earth-like habitable extrasolar planet is detected. I would take a wager on this one but doubt anyone would give me even odds.

Will anyone give me even odds if the bet is by 2015?

Comment author: gwern 19 August 2010 08:48:56AM 0 points [-]
Comment author: Kevin 18 April 2014 08:58:13AM 0 points [-]
Comment author: gwern 05 August 2014 10:28:04PM 1 point [-]

So by 'habitable' you meant simply in the zone?

Comment author: Kevin 24 August 2010 06:52:28AM 0 points [-]
Comment author: gwern 24 August 2010 09:14:10AM 0 points [-]

That's a good link (maybe half-forgotten rumors of this were why I guessed so high), but I hope you're not expecting me to close the prediction as correct based on just online rumors. :)

Comment author: Kevin 24 August 2010 09:22:13AM 0 points [-]

:) Definitely not closed yet, but I figured I would put the link up just as a running update of the prediction.