AlexMennen comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 8 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AlexMennen 28 August 2011 11:05:07PM *  5 points [-]

Hm... that is also true. Sufficiently restricted time travel should be computable. Not sure how restricted it would have to be. A sufficiently good computable approximation could conceivably have fooled a wizarding society that did not use the scientific method.