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Stuart_Armstrong comments on Green Emeralds, Grue Diamonds - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 06 July 2015 11:27AM

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Comment author: Manfred 07 July 2015 10:46:08PM 4 points [-]

Irrelevantly to the contents of the post (which I vaguely agree with as similar to "the natural language to do induction in is the language of observation"), I have one very important thing to say:

There is no such thing as a green star.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 08 July 2015 10:06:48AM *  2 points [-]

Nearby planetary nebula, then ^_^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_star_(astronomy)