But what if there was something Harry did that he was not smart enough to realize would likely end the world… And doing that thing made him smart enough to realize that. But he could only work through that with the intelligence from the world ending things. Seems like the sort of thing that could short out the enchantment.
If some action is a risk to the world but Harry doesn’t know vow doesn’t prevent him from doing it.
If afer taking some action Harry realizes it risked the world nothing happens except maybe him not being unable to repeat the decision if it comes up again.
If not taking some action (Example defeating someone about to obliviate him) would cause him to forget about a risk to the world vow doesn’t actually force him to do it.
And if Harry is forced to decide between ignorance and a risk to the world he will choose whichever he thinks is least likely to destroy the world.
The thing about ignorance seems to also aply to abandoning intelligence buffs.
Perhaps: Harry will destroy the world eventually. And wearing the Diadem “normally” finds a more certain/swift result to the same outcome? If so, then he should take it off… but taking it off would perhaps leave him too dumb to work out why he should have taken it off (“it made sense at the time, maybe I should put it back on”), and also unable to see how his default plans eventually do so (“it seemed like a bad idea, but now the logic is fuzzy, let’s keep going but more slowly”) so taking it off would ALSO destroy the world.
However, if he convulses forever back and forth between removing and not removing the diadem he kind of fulfills both impulses, and won’t thus destroy the world either way, so that’s the result?
Kind of like a Garrabrant Inductor thinking about one of its own Goedel Statements?
But what if there was something Harry did that he was not smart enough to realize would likely end the world… And doing that thing made him smart enough to realize that. But he could only work through that with the intelligence from the world ending things. Seems like the sort of thing that could short out the enchantment.
Not sure what you mean.
If some action is a risk to the world but Harry doesn’t know vow doesn’t prevent him from doing it.
If afer taking some action Harry realizes it risked the world nothing happens except maybe him not being unable to repeat the decision if it comes up again.
If not taking some action (Example defeating someone about to obliviate him) would cause him to forget about a risk to the world vow doesn’t actually force him to do it.
And if Harry is forced to decide between ignorance and a risk to the world he will choose whichever he thinks is least likely to destroy the world.
The thing about ignorance seems to also aply to abandoning intelligence buffs.
Perhaps: Harry will destroy the world eventually. And wearing the Diadem “normally” finds a more certain/swift result to the same outcome? If so, then he should take it off… but taking it off would perhaps leave him too dumb to work out why he should have taken it off (“it made sense at the time, maybe I should put it back on”), and also unable to see how his default plans eventually do so (“it seemed like a bad idea, but now the logic is fuzzy, let’s keep going but more slowly”) so taking it off would ALSO destroy the world.
However, if he convulses forever back and forth between removing and not removing the diadem he kind of fulfills both impulses, and won’t thus destroy the world either way, so that’s the result?
Kind of like a Garrabrant Inductor thinking about one of its own Goedel Statements?