Plasmon comments on "Stupid" questions thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Plasmon 13 July 2013 05:39:39AM *  3 points [-]

There's a story about anthropic reasoning being used to predict properties of the processes which produce carbon in stars, before these processes were known. (apparently there's some debate about whether or not this actually happened)