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

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Comment author: thomblake 09 February 2012 11:34:50PM 0 points [-]

But the most important part is that even if he is capable of precommitting and one-boxing, and even if that kind of trick fools the mirror, he'd first need to know that that was the condition necessary to obtain the stone.

Given the author, Harry could also be told after getting the stone that he could only get it if he would not use it, and therefore he would not use it. And he's already been cautioned against magical paradoxes.