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CAE_Jones comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 28, chapter 99-101 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gjm 12 December 2013 10:29:24PM 14 points [-]

Nothing specifically to do with these chapters, but it's only just occurred to me: Is it supposed to be significant that the initials of Potter-Evans-Verres are also the start of "Peverell" (indeed, you can get more if you take a few more letters of "Verres")? It seems a rather superficial observation, but "Verres" is a really unusual surname and it would be nice to have an explanation for why Eliezer chose it.

Comment author: CAE_Jones 14 December 2013 11:30:52AM 1 point [-]

Eliezer mentioned in a past discussion where he got the name Verres. Iirc it was a reference to someone/something, though I don't remember who/what. (This falsified my standing hypothesis at the time, which was that EY got the name from Latin for "truth".)

Comment author: sketerpot 14 December 2013 08:17:22PM *  6 points [-]

"Verres" came from combining "Vassar" and "Herreshoff". Here's the thread you're remembering.