LauralH comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 18, chapter 87 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 22 December 2012 11:32:40AM 3 points [-]

I just got that right now.

Comment author: MartinB 22 December 2012 12:04:44PM 8 points [-]

I don't get it. How about a hint for non American Readers?

Comment author: LauralH 22 December 2012 12:14:15PM *  5 points [-]

It's just fanfic terms: "shipping wars" are people who argued over, say, Harry/Hermione vs. Ron/Hermione, and "OT3" in that case would have been Harry/Hermione/Ron. (The original acronym was OTP=One True Pairing.)

Comment author: MartinB 22 December 2012 12:20:50PM 2 points [-]

Ok thats rofl worthy. I got the OTP with google, but didnt make the connection to the fanfiction usage of shipping. My guess was a reference to Vanderbuilt and similar guys at see.

Comment author: gwern 22 December 2012 08:03:18PM 6 points [-]

I was guessing it was some sort of Scientology reference - oh-tee-three being OT3 or Operating Thetan level 3. Which made no sense to me, but I couldn't do any better.

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