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

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Comment author: hairyfigment 19 December 2012 11:47:12PM -1 points [-]

I was probably just wrong, though gwern makes a good point. I think I was imagining people actively summoning an orb.

While we're on the topic, though, note that self-fulfilling prophecies seem easier for the Unspeakables to detect (and decide to prevent) than do "temporal pressures".