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Then you did a very unrealistic job representing each and every other young wizard in your writing.
by tel 16y ago
Then you did a very unrealistic job representing each and every other young wizard in your writing.
- gwern 16y agoYou're missing Eliezer's little joke. In classical logic, usually any predicate is True of a non-existent entity. There are no 11 year olds who attend wizarding school, hence it is True that all such creatures read CS preprints. (Like it is True that unicorns have one horn.)
- tel 16y agoI was also joking in that in Eliezer's fictional work he writes prolifically about 11 year olds who attend wizarding school and there is precisely one who reads them. Perhaps a </joke> would have been necessary.