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gthorneiii comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 23, chapter 94 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gthorneiii 10 July 2013 05:31:33PM 1 point [-]

~30 minutes? How do you come to that conclusion?

Comment author: fractalman 10 July 2013 07:54:59PM -2 points [-]

someone counted up all the "ticks" that happened and gave the assumption of one minute/tick. I assign way more confidence to the second assumption than to the exact number of ticks, as I didn't count them up myself.

Comment author: gthorneiii 11 July 2013 12:27:48AM 3 points [-]

I certainly didn't get the impression reading the chapter that each tick indicated a minute of time. I'd be more inclined to associate each tick with the second hand moving forward, and only really expressed when Harry reached a break between his disjointed thoughts.

Additionally, Eliezer had posted the following on Facebook:

The cognitive skill taught in Ch. 88 is the insight that I call 'wasted motion'. If you read Ch. 88 closely, a 'Tick' does not occur just because time passes. It occurs after each of Harry's thoughts (or actions) that predictably do not contribute to [resolving the issue successfully].

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