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

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Comment author: mjr 21 December 2012 11:44:34PM 1 point [-]

All of those Eye functions can be summed up as "seeing bloody everything" (presumably within some range of the user), which at least seems more narrowly focused than your description, so perhaps its creator thought so too, which seems to count for something here, what with the broom physics and all.

That's a plausible thought on the Cloak, though.

Comment author: pedanterrific 22 December 2012 12:00:48AM 2 points [-]

Yeah, thinking about it a bit more, it might be that the Eye is actually specialized to "detect all hidden things" or something- you can't hide by being behind a wall, you can't hide by being behind the user, you can't hide by being invisible.