Percent_Carbon comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 14, chapter 82 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Percent_Carbon 10 April 2012 05:24:00AM 1 point [-]

It probably shouldn't be everything you wanted to know about him.

This is what EY thought of his own history in 2000. He was only 21, at the cusp of adulthood.

Now EY has a better understanding of present EY, of EY in 2000, and of his own history throughout. And he's still probably wrong about things about himself that are obvious to others and go unmentioned anyway, like almost everyone.

You could reasonably want to know less than everything, you could reasonable want to know all the things on that page, but you are probably not serving your own interests well if the things on that page are all you seek to know.

Comment author: Alex_Altair 10 April 2012 12:19:03PM 2 points [-]

Yeah, I wasn't being literal. What I meant was that I really enjoy reading a personal narrated biography of someone that I really admire. Usually you can't get that until they're super famous or dead.