Comment on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 27, chapter 98

Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:09:04 GMT

Let's even grant that.

How about factoring in "plans to live forever through science"? That's probably the most relevant prior information.

Estimate P(never heard of cryonics | read tons of science and scifi books and researches interests and plans on living forever through science). Isn't that basically Harry before magic came along? He somehow missed mention of cryonics when he looked into means to live forever?

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