Vaniver comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 111 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lerjj 25 February 2015 08:03:32PM 2 points [-]

I suspect that Hermione goes first, because that's how you test that this is a safe idea: you do something 'nice'. I dispute the use of others as guinea pigs as actually being nice, though. Even when there are positives to them.

Comment author: Vaniver 25 February 2015 08:13:41PM 0 points [-]

I suspect that Hermione goes first, because that's how you test that this is a safe idea: you do something 'nice'.

I suggested as much last Saturday, but I was expecting him to do normal transfiguration and then make it permanent with the stone. When it was a ritual that he already knew, I assumed that he had already done it to himself--forgetting that it was temporary without the stone.