It seems the entire race of centaurs have taken something of a hit—in the books, they were perfectly aware that their divination was based on one’s state of mind and could easily be applied to the patterns perceived in, for example, twisting smoke from a campfire.
I wouldn’t mind much—Eliezer may not even have known or remembered that—except that this is not a new lesson for the readers, and it seems a missed opportunity to talk about pattern-matching, maybe tie it in with some of the other stuff about subconscious knowledge or desires in that scene.
I’m torn between vaguely hoping Eliezer will decide to change this, and uncertainty as to whether he even reads these comments. Heck, why should he? I certainly can’t write anything like HPMOR, why would he expect to get a useful suggestion from such a comment? (And it doesn’t help I’m signalling incompetence with typos from this darn phone, props to TobyBartels and others for reminding me to fix them.)
It seems that your entire first paragraph—which one might have expected to end with something explaining what it seems is true about the entire race of centaurs rather than stopping in mid-sentence.
[EDITED to note that now MugaSofer has fixed the mistake I was commenting on.]
It seems the entire race of centaurs have taken something of a hit—in the books, they were perfectly aware that their divination was based on one’s state of mind and could easily be applied to the patterns perceived in, for example, twisting smoke from a campfire.
I wouldn’t mind much—Eliezer may not even have known or remembered that—except that this is not a new lesson for the readers, and it seems a missed opportunity to talk about pattern-matching, maybe tie it in with some of the other stuff about subconscious knowledge or desires in that scene.
I’m torn between vaguely hoping Eliezer will decide to change this, and uncertainty as to whether he even reads these comments. Heck, why should he? I certainly can’t write anything like HPMOR, why would he expect to get a useful suggestion from such a comment? (And it doesn’t help I’m signalling incompetence with typos from this darn phone, props to TobyBartels and others for reminding me to fix them.)
It seems that your entire first paragraph—which one might have expected to end with something explaining what it seems is true about the entire race of centaurs rather than stopping in mid-sentence.
[EDITED to note that now MugaSofer has fixed the mistake I was commenting on.]
I think the missing phrase from context is something like “don’t know that in HPMR”.
Yes, I think so too.
Thanks! Forgot to update one end of the sentence when I changed the wording at the other.
Yes, please fix the typos! You have a good point, and it’s getting lost.