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gjm comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 22, chapter 93 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gjm 06 July 2013 11:00:45PM 2 points [-]

One interpretation would be [...]

Another, which I find more plausible, is that Eliezer was just making a joke, the whole point of which is that he isn't revealing anything.

(I don't think it's completely impossible that he did mean something by it, but I wouldn't give that more than 5% probability.)

Comment author: ikrase 07 July 2013 02:49:43AM 1 point [-]

It will probably come up as a metaphor, pun, or brief reference to either MLP transhumanist fanfic or to Alicorn's Luminosity (which contains a princess).

Comment author: CAE_Jones 07 July 2013 05:31:54AM 2 points [-]

And, Radiance spoilers, Ryfcrgu vf noyr gb qbjaybnq gur zrzbevrf bs crbcyr Neb gbhpurq vagb pbzngbfr uhznaf, rssrpgviryl erfheerpgvat gurz, vasbezngvba-gurbergvp-jvfr. (Ryfcrgu vf gur cevaprff.)

I haven't read Friendship is Optimal; it sounds like there are some similarities, with FIO on the simulation side.