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TobyBartels comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 24, chapter 95 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Kawoomba 18 July 2013 10:12:24AM *  11 points [-]

Professor Quirrell took a small step to the left, a step forward, another to the right. He tilted his head with a look of calculation, and then he walked almost directly towards where Harry stood, halted a few paces off with the sense of doom enflamed to the height of bearability.

Nice, Quirrell is tracking Harry by checking in which direction the sense of doom becomes stronger.

I hereby rechristen "the sense of doom" to "the sensor of doom".

Edit: "But what do Muggles know of true power? It is not them who frightens me now. It is you." Typo, should be 'frighten'.

Edit 2: "I could name a dozen examples in Muggle novels of people driven to resurrect their dead friends. The authors of those stories clearly understood exactly how I feel about Hermione. Though you wouldn't have read them, I guess... maybe Orpheus and Eurydice?" -- Aah, what a lost chance to break the fourth wall and cite HPMOR as an example!

Comment author: TobyBartels 19 July 2013 06:56:36AM 7 points [-]

cite HPMOR as an example

Can't, it won't be written for another 20 years

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 19 July 2013 08:40:49AM 5 points [-]

That didn't stop Harry from citing Critch!

Comment author: Gurkenglas 25 July 2013 02:33:53AM 3 points [-]

Eliezer said that citing modern science, like timeless physics, is allowed. Is HPMOR Science?

Comment author: TobyBartels 21 July 2013 07:57:22AM 0 points [-]

Good point; so perhaps Eliezer will also have published early in the MoRverse.