Comment on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 119

Sat, 14 Mar 2015 16:56:19 GMT

Actually, I was probably being too literal about the question because the logical paradox struck me as funny.

I will blame an ambiguity which I think is built into English. "How mindkilled are you?" can imply that you're mindkilled in some sense which is stable over a period of time, or it can imply that you were mindkilled recently but have a capacity to come out of it.

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