Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 112 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 26 February 2015 09:24:24AM -1 points [-]

And unfortunately, in a serial you can't go back and change these things if you realize that you needed to foreshadow them a few chapters back.

I don't think that's how Eliezer treats it. The reference to the centaur forecasting that giving Petunia the beauty portion will end the world, that's in the first chapter wasn't there at the start but was added later.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 February 2015 11:50:58PM 12 points [-]

It was there on day 1.

Comment author: TobyBartels 01 March 2015 08:14:25AM *  1 point [-]

Bad example, then, but you have changed things. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

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