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Vaniver comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 114 + chapter 115 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vaniver 04 March 2015 06:56:39PM 1 point [-]

Cute, but it falls prey to the Wizengamot Mistake: the point of not leaving clues is not that the median person will understand the clue, but that any person might understand the clue. The benefit of such a move is that Harry gets to feel special; the detriment of such a move is that someone might notice that Harry is special. This is not worth it.

Comment author: Romashka 04 March 2015 07:10:44PM 0 points [-]

Then he merely has to mis-Time it and have it not have worked:)

On the other hand, I think he really has lots of stuff to do this hour, he simply will have no time for jokes.