Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 9 - Less Wrong Discussion
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Actually I looked up in Wikipedia how many licks it takes to get the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop, and picked a number that seemed commensurate with the human-licker experiments.
The Chilling Implications you point out (how many licks does it take to get to the center of Hermione?) were totally lost on my consciousness until now. I wonder if that subconscious imagery had anything to do with why my brain produced that response from Hermione?
But still, probably not 187.
I'm sure there are other authors on fanfiction.net who could answer this for us.
It's 34. The rule there is that the answer is always 34.
"187" is a slang term for murder, which comes from the California penal code. Is this a coincidence?