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linkhyrule5 comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 11 - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Oscar_Cunningham 17 March 2012 09:41AM

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Comment author: linkhyrule5 25 March 2012 12:37:50AM 3 points [-]

The problem with this is that they're not clones, they're future versions. So a potion can only be used once, a Time Turner duplicated still only has six "charges," and so on.

Comment author: DanArmak 25 March 2012 12:42:21AM 0 points [-]

Oops. Very stupid and basic error on my part. You're right, it's not exponential duplication, if you have N turners you get 6*N duplicates. Will fix.

Still useful for clone-armies and for duplicating artifacts of power.