Will_Newsome comments on The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship - Less Wrong

177 Post author: lukeprog 05 January 2011 07:22AM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 05 January 2011 06:24:13PM 7 points [-]

That post says, "You might find it more enjoyable to read Plato rather than more modern work just as someone else might prefer to have their philosophical arguments interspersed in Harry Potter slash," and was posted February 25, 2010. The first chapter of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality was posted Feb. 28, 2010. Coincidence?

Comment author: Will_Newsome 06 January 2011 02:32:57AM 1 point [-]

Eliezer actually did mention the allegedly preposterous idea of getting some kind of wisdom (philsophical? ethical?) from Harry Potter in a comment reply back in the OB days. I'm too busy/lazy to find a link though.

Comment author: Costanza 06 January 2011 02:37:26AM 3 points [-]

Is this it?