wedrifid comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 13, chapter 81 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 28 March 2012 01:14:55PM *  4 points [-]

I don't think that's how time-travel works in this story.

It is. Winning on the stockmarket with this time-travel system is barely any different (in terms of mere physics) than using it as a sleep aid.

that's not what the world looks like in the story.

In a fantasy world this ad hoc most of the wizarding population has to be holding the idiot ball most of the time for things to be as they look in the story.

Comment author: MarkusRamikin 28 March 2012 01:49:39PM *  0 points [-]

We're talking about Eliezer!HP, not Rowling!HP.

If using time travel in this way is possible (I maintain it already has been explained it isn't), that opens up a million plot holes and so I predict EY won't go there.

Comment author: wedrifid 28 March 2012 02:02:42PM 4 points [-]

If using time travel in this way is possible (I maintain it already has been explained it isn't)

You are wrong. We've already seen more complicated information exploitation scenarios than this.

that opens up a million plot holes and so I predict EY won't go there.

Narrative necessity dictates that he probably won't.

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