I don’t have a link offhand, but I recall EY stating his reasons for not boosting Hermione:
She doesn’t need the boost to compete with the other characters, including Harry
If she was boosted, the story would be “Hermione Granger Discovers the Methods of Rationality and Becomes Omnipotent” (i.e. a thoroughly power-boosted Hermione would break the story)
A boosted Hermione would plausibly be smarter then EY
Sure. Those are all reasons to not boost the character as much as the other characters get boosted. But that doesn’t mean any boost is a problem. It isn’t difficult to imagine what a slightly boosted Hermione might do. I gave an example elsewhere in this subthread. But one can easily imagine other similar examples.
I don’t have a link offhand, but I recall EY stating his reasons for not boosting Hermione:
She doesn’t need the boost to compete with the other characters, including Harry
If she was boosted, the story would be “Hermione Granger Discovers the Methods of Rationality and Becomes Omnipotent” (i.e. a thoroughly power-boosted Hermione would break the story)
A boosted Hermione would plausibly be smarter then EY
Sure. Those are all reasons to not boost the character as much as the other characters get boosted. But that doesn’t mean any boost is a problem. It isn’t difficult to imagine what a slightly boosted Hermione might do. I gave an example elsewhere in this subthread. But one can easily imagine other similar examples.