ArisKatsaris comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 11 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 22 March 2012 01:25:35AM 1 point [-]

Thank you for explaining your reasoning. Upvoted.

May I note that you hadn't explained it previously, and that not all of us are D&D gamers that we would automatically know what Eagle's Splendor was?

Comment author: Xachariah 22 March 2012 10:01:24AM 2 points [-]

I apologize. A took it as an insult and responded inappropriately.

I know this theory has been explained in past discussion threads and assumed anyone who cares (wow that's a loaded phrase!) would have already known it. Even though it could be 5000+ posts of writing. In retrospect, that was clearly unreasonably of me.

In the future, it would make sense for someone to post a catalog of all the non-obvious insights in HPMoR. I know there are others, but my mind simply labels everything everything I know regarding HPMoR as 'obvious' since I already know it.

I'm reminded of the sequences on Inferential Distance.