thomblake comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 17 September 2010 09:55:37PM *  7 points [-]

"Death shall lose" is just denial.

No, it's something to protect. There are certain ways one needs to communicate with a human, and this is an example of that. See The Affect Heuristic and Trying to Try.

Edit: changed "something to protect" into a link.