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

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Comment author: gwern 23 March 2012 02:46:07AM 3 points [-]

Maybe. On the other hand, he's in a hall of people who all strongly believe that Dementors would never do any such thing and will obey their commands.

Comment author: pedanterrific 23 March 2012 02:51:40AM 4 points [-]

So you're going with Harry's initial idea, that Dementors are controlled by expectations? If that's the case, then yeah, it probably won't work.