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

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Comment author: gwern 04 January 2013 07:52:40PM -2 points [-]

The argument from silence works both ways.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 05 January 2013 05:54:13AM 0 points [-]

Except, we know that they aren't in fact used for education.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 04 January 2013 08:05:17PM *  0 points [-]

In fiction, if something is not foreshadowed, it can be true, but it shouldn't play any role in what follows, and in this sense it could be said to not belong to the fictional setting.