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

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Comment author: redlizard 11 July 2013 02:00:58AM 2 points [-]

If a text can have Unfortunate Implications even if there was no alternative way to tell the story and the story is legitimate, then I don't understand this concept of Unfortunate Implications and I think it oughtn't to be called "Unfortunate Implications". Because there is no implication of anything.

That sounds a lot like Conservation of Expected Evidence to me, by analogy if not quite literally.