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gwern comments on REQ: Latin translation for HPMOR - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gwern 22 August 2011 03:56:45PM 3 points [-]

Francis Bacon was 1561-1626, so c. 1200 means a Latin poem is available to him. Prediction: it will be in his diary.

Comment author: MinibearRex 22 August 2011 04:06:15PM 6 points [-]

Harry got the diary of Roger Bacon, not Francis. Roger was born ~1214.

Comment author: gwern 22 August 2011 04:07:49PM 0 points [-]

Oops! This is not the first time I've gotten the two confused... In any event, c. 1200 is prior to either Bacon.

Comment author: Vaniver 22 August 2011 04:41:20PM 1 point [-]

I am mildly disappointed that you just specified "Bacon," and so the prediction is not trivially wrong.

Comment author: gwern 22 August 2011 06:08:22PM 0 points [-]

I'm not disappointed... and if I had, I'd just edit the prediction. No point in leaving it trivially wrong.

Comment author: gwern 01 September 2011 02:24:46AM 2 points [-]

Well, so much for that!

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