William_Quixote comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 27, chapter 98 - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Vaniver 28 August 2013 07:29PM

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Comment author: William_Quixote 29 August 2013 08:09:29PM 3 points [-]

A fun idea, but I doubt he will do that again here. HPMOR was written as a teaching device and a way of promoting rationalist thinking to a large audience. That is, its not just a fun piece of writing, its a tool and so the ending will be whatever makes it better accomplish the purpose for which it was created. EY won't blunt his tools based on a poll.

Comment author: AndrewE 30 August 2013 07:37:44PM 3 points [-]

I rather hope he does do it, though I doubt it will be as much of an ultimatum was TWC was. If it happens, I expect it to take the form of "the climax will be posted when somebody figures it out, or after X months otherwise".

Comment author: atorm 30 August 2013 12:11:47PM 1 point [-]

He does sometimes use his tools bluntly, however.