Alicorn comments on Rationality Quotes October 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 03 October 2011 06:33:20PM 2 points [-]

(They're all said by Harry)

Nope.

Comment author: RobertLumley 03 October 2011 06:40:08PM 0 points [-]

Which isn't? Am I misremembering?

The fourth is said by Quirrell, now that I think about it, isn't it.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 03 October 2011 06:59:01PM 4 points [-]

Question: If one isn't keeping track even which characters have said which quotes (and in this case a quote that jumps out as very much not a Harry thing to say), what makes you confident that you can judge which quotes are intended to be things the author agrees with? This should surely reduce your confidence by a fair bit.

Comment author: RobertLumley 03 October 2011 07:02:25PM 0 points [-]

It does, on the fourth quote. But to be fair, I had thought that all of the quotes were by Harry and then went to look them up - I did not look them up and then think they were all by Harry. I might have noticed it, had I done the latter. But once I had looked them up I did not reconsider my previous statement - it was made completely from memory (And I have a collection of upwards of 100 quotes).