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polymathwannabe comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 119 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 11 March 2015 04:02:14AM 0 points [-]

So the Stone was created to be used no more than 400 times a day. This allows for the prediction that someone with a normal cycle should be able to use it every 1/400 of our normal days, or 216 seconds.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 11 March 2015 05:43:33AM 1 point [-]

The limit might be the result of limited capacity rather than design.