[SEQ RERUN] Use the Try Harder, Luke

Today’s post, Use the Try Harder, Luke was originally published on 02 October 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

A fictional exchange between Mark Hamil and George Lucas over the scene in Empire Strikes Back where Luke Skywalker attempts to lift his X-wing with the force.

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This post is part of the Rerunning the Sequences series, where we’ll be going through Eliezer Yudkowsky’s old posts in order so that people who are interested can (re-)read and discuss them. The previous post was Trying to Try, and you can use the sequence_reruns tag or rss feed to follow the rest of the series.

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