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Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 9 - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Oscar_Cunningham 09 September 2011 01:29PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 September 2011 05:17:29AM 8 points [-]

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.

Comment author: shokwave 10 September 2011 05:39:32AM 23 points [-]

how many licks does it take to get to the center of Hermione?

I'm sure there are other authors on fanfiction.net who could answer this for us.

Comment author: lessdazed 15 September 2011 07:28:25AM *  5 points [-]

fanfiction.net

It's 34. The rule there is that the answer is always 34.

Comment author: Hyphen-ated 15 September 2011 04:28:34AM 3 points [-]

"187" is a slang term for murder, which comes from the California penal code. Is this a coincidence?