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Yeah, I feel like in real world situations, hypothesizing time travel when things don't make sense is not likely to be epistemically successful.

Wasn't there a proverb about generalizing from fictional evidence? Especially from fiction that intentionally doesn't make sense?

That seems like a failure of noticing confusion; some clear things are actually false.

Nominull10y140

This post is a good example of why LW is dying. Specifically, that it was posted as a comment to a garbage-collector thread in the second-class area. Something is horribly wrong with the selection mechanism for what gets on the front page.

Nominull10y140

Does that actually work better than just setting a higher bar for significance? My gut says that data is data and chopping it up cleverly can't work magic.

If I have no value as a human, I desire to believe I have no value as a human.

Nominull10y710

Are you planning to do any analysis on what traits are associated with defection? That could get ugly fast.

(I took the survey)

Nominull11y-10

Probably the only two things the True Patronus can look like are humans and snakes. Possibly flying squirrels?

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