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

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Comment author: somervta 04 July 2013 03:38:02AM 1 point [-]

Isn't this exactly what they spend quite a bit of time doing?

Comment author: Alsadius 04 July 2013 03:53:50AM 1 point [-]

Quite a bit, yes. That's most of why I made the above comment. If they'd spent ten seconds and moved on, I'd slam them for underpreparedness too. But there are limits on how much time they can spend, and they don't seem to have been particularly lax or dismissive. Sure, it's possible that something else could have been considered, but you're deep into the realm of diminishing returns.