philh comments on Stupid Questions June 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: philh 01 June 2015 12:52:05PM 1 point [-]

Do your criticisms also apply to artificial diamonds? It seems likely that ve knows something about the diamond industry, given

I am leaning towards an artificial diamond, as it seems hard to guarantee conflict-free otherwise

Comment author: adamzerner 01 June 2015 01:29:27PM *  0 points [-]

Woops, I missed that statement. My apologies.

There's still a lot of stuff "beneath the surface", and so I still think my criticisms still apply, but obviously a lot less so if they're truly conflict-free.