Bugmaster comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 113 - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Gondolinian 28 February 2015 08:23PM

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Comment author: Bugmaster 01 March 2015 01:14:08AM 1 point [-]

Note: will still be stuck to Harry's face, so no bombs or suchlike.

Why not ? I mean, yeah, obviously Harry would want to survive; but if there was some way to take out Voldemort while also taking out himself (and possibly Hermione), and there was nothing better that Harry could come up with in 60 seconds; then the logical course of action would be to go ahead and do that.

Comment author: MathMage 01 March 2015 01:18:12AM 7 points [-]

Because it is unlikely that Harry would have precommitted to blowing himself up as a general emergency countermeasure.