RichardKennaway comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 16 June 2010 04:17:28PM 2 points [-]

For example, Harry will get enough luck to enter nirvana.

You say that like becoming a bodhisattva is a bad thing.

'I vow to save all sentient beings...'

Comment author: RichardKennaway 28 June 2010 08:39:54AM 1 point [-]

A bodhisattva is someone who deliberately refrains from departing into nirvana, but stays behind in order to save all sentient beings.

Comment author: gwern 28 June 2010 01:44:43PM * 2 points [-]

A nitpick essential to my joke - having enough luck to enter nirvana is not the same thing as actually entering nirvana.