dxu comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 119 - Less Wrong Discussion
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I don't see where you're getting this reading from. My full quote is here:
The point here is not that an idea should be disqualified if it is more immediately relevant to topics other than the intended one; it is that it should be disqualified if, when shown to someone out of context, the correct context is not readily deducible from the quote itself--or, in other words, if multiple different contexts leap to mind upon seeing it, none of which are the intended context. That's what it means for something to be a "stretch". I'm not seeing why you interpreted my words in the rather strange way you did.