CAE_Jones comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 28, chapter 99-101 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CAE_Jones 14 December 2013 11:30:52AM 1 point [-]

Eliezer mentioned in a past discussion where he got the name Verres. Iirc it was a reference to someone/something, though I don't remember who/what. (This falsified my standing hypothesis at the time, which was that EY got the name from Latin for "truth".)

Comment author: sketerpot 14 December 2013 08:17:22PM *  6 points [-]

"Verres" came from combining "Vassar" and "Herreshoff". Here's the thread you're remembering.