Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 9 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 December 2011 02:02:55PM 4 points [-]

I was being careful to include at least one logical impossibility in the story so that my writing it could not increase its measure.

Comment author: jimrandomh 26 December 2011 08:08:43PM 6 points [-]

I don't think that actually works. At most, you've reduced the measure increase by the inverse-exponential length of the shortest program that rewrites in a way that undoes the impossibility. What kind of serial fiction extrapolating simulator lacks that as a builtin feature, but still works?

Comment author: Sniffnoy 26 December 2011 09:49:33PM 2 points [-]

But as others have pointed out, that just indicates that that section of Hogwarts is negatively curved. Of course, you say "at least one", so...