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ChristianKl comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapters 105-107 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: dxu 17 February 2015 01:28:08AM *  19 points [-]

I love how so many people are acting as though their pet hypotheses have already been confirmed (both here and on Reddit), despite the fact that the only evidence we've got at this point for most of those hypotheses is Quirrell's word. I don't know about anyone else, but this seems to me like a golden opportunity for EY to pull some sort of epic subversion of expectations and then lecture all of us about confirmation bias or overconfidence or something.

Comment author: ChristianKl 17 February 2015 04:12:33PM 1 point [-]

EY did write that it's not his intention to mislead readers.

Comment author: dxu 17 February 2015 04:15:45PM 2 points [-]

Not misleading readers, yes. Letting readers come to their own conclusion, which happens to be wrong, on the other hand...