I’m not even going to ask how a pouch ends up with voice recognition and natural language understanding when the best Artificial Intelligence programmers can’t get the fastest supercomputers to do it after thirty-five years of hard work
some HPMoR statements did not age gracefully as others.
This is also why HPMOR! Harry is worried about grey goo and wants to work in nanotech, is only vaguely interested in AI; I think those were Eliezer’s beliefs in about 1995 (he would be 16)
Harry is not meant to be a logically omniscient god who never makes any mistakes. Even on its own terms, “thirty-five years of hard work” is really not that long, nowhere near long enough for Harry to rightly believe the problem is so hard that magic must be pulling some crazy impossible to understand bullshit to accomplish the feat, and transparently so. Harry’s young, and in fact doesn’t have much historical perspective.
some HPMoR statements did not age gracefully as others.
It’s set in about 1995...
1991/1992, actually (Harry Potter was born July 1980, and the story takes place the school year after his 11th birthday.)
This is also why HPMOR! Harry is worried about grey goo and wants to work in nanotech, is only vaguely interested in AI; I think those were Eliezer’s beliefs in about 1995 (he would be 16)
Harry is not meant to be a logically omniscient god who never makes any mistakes. Even on its own terms, “thirty-five years of hard work” is really not that long, nowhere near long enough for Harry to rightly believe the problem is so hard that magic must be pulling some crazy impossible to understand bullshit to accomplish the feat, and transparently so. Harry’s young, and in fact doesn’t have much historical perspective.