Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 4 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: gjm 07 October 2010 09:12PM

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Comment author: NihilCredo 26 October 2010 07:13:18PM *  5 points [-]

I'm pretty sure I'm being exceedingly careful here, but...

is that enough evidence for people to conclude that Q=V?

It's enough evidence to conclude that he's a bad guy.

Assuming I had never read Eliezer's assurances that Q=V, I would most definitely not put it past him to make his rewriting of HP not so much about the Dumbleharry vs. Voldemort war, but about the internecine fight between Quirrell/ColdHarry and Dumbledore/WarmHarry about how to confront the Voldemort threat - by finding a worthy dictator (in the original intent of the word, hopefully) or by making free citizens, I mean subjects of Her Majesty stand up for themselves. Each of them convinced that fighting Voldemort by the other's means would be as bad or worse than giving up; each of them wondering how much can they scheme and sacrifice, how close can they come to Voldemort's methods in order to successfully lead the fight against him... damn, speculating about it makes me want to read it already, no matter all the stuff that doesn't quite work with this scenario (sense of doom in primis).

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 October 2010 12:17:57AM 5 points [-]

So write it. Nothing wrong with having an AU of an AU.