gwern comments on Open Thread, August 16-31, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 19 August 2012 08:48:15PM 3 points [-]

C'mon, color is totally a social construct!

Comment author: Nornagest 19 August 2012 09:52:53PM 5 points [-]

There really should be a phrase for socially constructed divisions or elaborations of a continuous empirical space.

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 19 August 2012 10:48:06PM 2 points [-]

"self-fulfilling distinctions"?