Sideways comments on Rationalist Fiction - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 March 2009 08:22AM

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Comment author: Sideways 19 March 2009 10:10:56PM 6 points [-]

Perhaps it was a friend who went to China, and brought these coins back as a souvenir gift.

Fortunately you can rely on Conan Doyle and writers in general being parsimonious: unlike reality, stories don't contain odd details unless they're important to the plot.