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jkaufman comments on Open Thread for January 8 - 16 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: jkaufman 16 January 2014 08:53:38PM 0 points [-]

Methods!Hermione got just as much of an intelligence upgrade as Methods!Harry did

Harry's upgrade was much larger. At the recent HPMOR meetup in Boston someone asked Eliezer about this, and his response was that Hermione was already smart enough that this would have made her "smarter than the author" and made writing her much too difficult.

This was also discussed in an hpmor thread.