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

9 Post author: Alsadius 17 December 2012 07:19AM

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Comment author: Alsadius 18 December 2012 05:38:30AM 11 points [-]

He admits freely that Moody would have kicked his ass in a real fight, so I'm not sure how much actual superiority was established there.

Comment author: Tenek 19 December 2012 04:49:58PM 0 points [-]

He gets the mechanism wrong though. In a real fight, Moody kills him or at the very least takes his toys away if he's needed alive. There wouldn't be any time-turned copies of him in the first place.

Comment author: Alsadius 19 December 2012 07:54:15PM 1 point [-]

Stable time loops are sort of a problem for what-if scenarios - it's sufficiently hard to make up one, coming up with alternates isn't always possible.