polymathwannabe comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 104 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 16 February 2015 04:14:37AM * -2 points [-]

I found it unbelievable that Harry would have taken that absurd amount of time to decipher what "the constellation" meant. It was obvious even to me.

Comment author: dxu 16 February 2015 05:47:13AM 12 points [-]

On the other hand, I didn't see it at all, so it takes all sorts, I guess.

Comment author: palladias 16 February 2015 06:03:00AM 3 points [-]

I thought Sirius.

Comment author: garabik 16 February 2015 08:50:36AM 2 points [-]

I thought Sirius.

That's not a constellation though...

Comment author: polymathwannabe 16 February 2015 12:54:27PM 0 points [-]

I must admit "seven in a square" was not obvious to me. I thought it was advice for the chess room.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 16 February 2015 04:00:00PM 1 point [-]

I was drawing squares on clock faces.

Comment author: ReevesAnd 17 February 2015 04:23:23PM * 0 points [-]

"42" seemed the obvious answer. Although if he were going for that, he might just make a Hitchhiker's Guide reference.

Or maybe he was concealing the Hitchhiker's Guide reference?