wedrifid 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: wedrifid 28 October 2010 07:33:48PM 0 points [-]

They are if they are derived independently from the text via discussion here or guesswork. ie. You can guess stuff. They aren't if, um, you raid Eliezer's dwellings and find yet to be published manuscripts, for example. Or torture Eliezer to find out his plans. Any source of knowledge that hasn't passed through the bottleneck of the text at some point.

Dclayh didn't reveal anything remotely privileged. Or anything that hasn't been speculated on ad infinitum.

Comment author: thomblake 28 October 2010 07:50:25PM 2 points [-]

dclayh was complying with the spirit of this request from Eliezer:

I came to realize in time that what I thought was a bug was a feature, however frustrating that may be for me, so please rot13 that comment with the warning "spoilers even if you've read all chapters".