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maia comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 14, chapter 82 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: maia 04 April 2012 04:09:05AM 10 points [-]

You're using TVTropes here to generalize from fictional evidence. Normally you can apply this effectively to other works of fiction, but I think Methods is written largely with the aim of avoiding conventional 'story-logic' in favor of logic that could actually work in the real world.