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Baughn comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 116 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Baughn 04 March 2015 11:48:44PM 10 points [-]

That's a literal Idiot Ball reference, not to mention canon. I don't think we'll see it.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 05 March 2015 02:45:32PM 1 point [-]

But it's not an idiot ball if there's an actual legitimate reason for being stupid.

Like, in The Naked Time and The Naked Now, the initial infections were pure idiot ball.

The subsequent infections, and the crew doing spectacularly stupid and even suicidal things, were not.