wedrifid comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 7 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 07 February 2011 04:18:50AM 0 points [-]

Have we had the version with X, Y and Z listed?

No, haven't. This seems to indicate a failure of rationality of the part of the time turner users. :)

Comment author: TobyBartels 07 February 2011 05:13:05AM 0 points [-]

They may be trying to avoid sending more information than necessary into the past, since there are known limitations on that. (No information can be sent more than 6 hours in the past, even through a sequence of time-turners.) I can't think of a situation where it would be safe to send the information that something has gone wrong but not the information about how, and maybe they can't either, but they could just be playing it safe.