Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 17, chapter 86 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 December 2012 07:27:47AM 13 points [-]

Moody has a magical eye. Therefore, Naruto has at some point fought him. QED.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 18 December 2012 11:13:19AM 1 point [-]
Comment author: somervta 18 December 2012 02:09:37PM 0 points [-]

Not just that. I believe naruto has fought (or was it will fight?) all doujutsu. Word of God.

Comment author: pedanterrific 18 December 2012 05:30:13PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, but that one specifically is the best match for the Eye of Vance.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 December 2012 05:12:47AM 2 points [-]

I tried to write a line with Harry misidentifying it as the Eye That Looks Toward The Sun but had to take it out.

Comment author: pedanterrific 19 December 2012 05:27:28AM 0 points [-]

Sorry, you lost me (and the term doesn't seem to be googleable). What's that a reference to?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 December 2012 07:14:53AM 1 point [-]

Hyuuga = "Toward the Sun"

Comment author: pedanterrific 19 December 2012 07:43:17AM 0 points [-]

...Ah.

Comment author: KnaveOfAllTrades 27 August 2013 03:47:01PM *  0 points [-]

Damn. I already upvoted this, so now I've actually read that scene, I can't righteously upvote. Also, seconding moridinamael; Moody's Naruto line was pretty damn hilarious. Though now I'm wracking my brains trying to remember whether 'no match for this eye of mine' is lifted directly from Naruto, or you were just successfully emulating shonen braggadocio.

Clearly visible from where Harry had perched himself on his chair's arm was a truncated-conical object, like a cone with its top snipped off, slowly spinning around a pulsating central light which it shaded but did not obscure; and each time the inner light pulsated, the assembly made a vroop-vroop-vroop sound that sounded oddly distant, muffled like it was coming from behind four solid walls, even though the spinning-conical-section thingy was only a meter or two away.

https://www.google.com/search?q=conic+frustum