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Luke_A_Somers comments on Open Thread April 8 - April 14 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 14 April 2014 12:39:39AM 4 points [-]

Characters act against their own interests in HPMoR... and in Hikaru no Go, for that matter. Just, you get to see why they're doing it so it seems more reasonable at the time. Which is of course how it seems to them. We're just used to characters doing things that don't seem like good ideas at the time in other works.