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Desrtopa comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 20, chapter 90 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Desrtopa 02 July 2013 03:36:26PM 2 points [-]

Or raw materials, perhaps. Tearing apart stars sounds like something you might resort to if you needed more stuff than you could harvest from a planet. Computronium maybe?

Comment author: Decius 02 July 2013 09:50:33PM 1 point [-]

Having solved death in the general case, why wouldn't Harry eventually end up using stars as raw material? The only reason he isn't planning to do so now is that it requires a timescale longer than ordinary life.