Kindly comments on Mind Projection Fallacy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 01 March 2015 12:46:57PM *  0 points [-]

Yeah, that's a pale blue, but I find it hard to alieve (and, had I not read Generalizing From One Example, I'd also find it hard to believe) that a sizeable fraction of the population find it pale enough to call it "white" non-trollingly. This also applies if I look at it on a dark background such as the left panel of XKCD with my screen's luminosity set to the maximum. (The only condition in which I would call such a thing “white” is if I thought it only looked like that because of the ambient light, but under so blue a light the dark parts of the dress would look quite black with hardly any trace of yellow whatsoever.)

Comment author: Kindly 01 March 2015 05:36:37PM 1 point [-]

I see the same shade of pale blue while walking to work over white snow.