ajuc

• ajucMar 15, 2012, 6:37 PM

  17 points

  on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 10

  Jumping in time just 6 hours back indicates to me that in the computer that is simulating MoR universe data is kept with 6-hours long cache.

  As to Atlantis—they found a way to get out of the box—one level up, and they’ve left some cheat-codes for people that are still in this simulation. That also explains why some very important figures (like Dumbledore) think MoR runs on stories—somebody outside of simulation changes the simulation accordingnly. Maybe this simulation purpose is to make the best stories?

  Also explains why prophecy works for more than 6 hours into the future—because simulation has some invariants, that make for best stories, and seers can well, “see” them, but only for very important events, and only guess ral meaning of these predictions. Hence mysterious prophecies.

  What it doesn’t explain—why cheat codes are in latinised English.

• ajucMar 14, 2012, 9:51 PM

  3 points

  in reply to: anotherblackhat’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 10

  Complicated and risky plot (he teach well his future enemies). Sacking Dumbledore doesn’t seem worthy such big risk. Quirrell now has the possibility to teach future wizards what he thinks will serve him, is impossible to fire, has influence on Harry, and Dumbledore doesn’t seem to get much value out of being head of the Hogward.

  I think Quirrell wants to unite wizards using some external enemy, and conquer the world/​stop muggles from nuking themselves. Harry has great PR, so he’ll be the fuhrer of united magical Brittain, and Quirrell will provide common enemy somehow to make it easier for Harry to rule.

• ajucMar 14, 2012, 7:11 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: pedanterrific’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 10

  I’ve thought if you’re not Harry Potter, and you have brain, then the only way to survive Avada Kedavra is not to be there?

  And when Harry sneaked to Dumbledore last time he (D.) had not cast anything to check if it was Harry. Maybe he can do this quietly.

• ajucMar 14, 2012, 5:52 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: Xachariah’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 10

  If he is not constrained by ethics, he can also conveniently erase earlier memories of Hermione, if he suspects it would help to persuade her to do what he wants.

  Effect—Dark!Hermione or at least different than she was before.

• ajucMar 14, 2012, 5:41 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: sketerpot’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 10

  You could’t apparate to Hogward in cannon, if I recall correctly?

• ajucMar 14, 2012, 5:35 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: grautry’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 10

  For it to be “fair” destruction of General Relativity you’ll need the information to be destroyed, not container.

  So everybody everywhere in the universe would need to forget it AND you need to destroy every physic book with it, and wikipedia, etc, etc.

• ajucMar 14, 2012, 5:25 PM

  3 points

  in reply to: aladner’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 10

  Testing which potion we got by such and such stirring pattern would be fun.

  You give it to your hero and he is instantly dead. Or you give it to some criminal sentenced to death/​Azkaban and he becomes unkillable for a month, or invisible to Dementors :)

  Or you give it to rat and nothing happens—you try to kill the rat and he’s killed—maybe that was potion that makes you invisible to dementors?

• ajucMar 14, 2012, 5:03 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: Joshua Hobbes’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 10

  For Quirrell it would be “in character” to kill Dumbledore in such a way, that everybody would think it was natural death. Or at least assasinate him quietly without witnesses, without time for Dumbledore to react.

  BTW—what stops Quirrell from polyjuicing as Harry, asking for private audience in Dumbledore apartment, doing quick surprise Avada Kedavra, and flying out of window? Or better yet—put Albus body to magical pouch, polyjuice as Dumbledore and run Hogward ever since. Dumbledore behaves quite strange, and rarely shows publicly, so it wouldn’t be hard to do.

  I can only think that Quirrell thinks everything is going according to plan, and no need to make the game more chaotic by killin Dumbledore now.

• ajucMar 1, 2012, 8:36 PM

  0 points

  on: The Hid­den Com­plex­ity of Wishes

  So if I specified to the Outcome Pump, that I want the outcome, where the person, that is future version of me (by DNA, and by physical continuity of the body), will write “ABRACADABRA, This outcome I good enough and I value it for $X” on the paper and put in on the outcome pump, and the $X is how much I value the outcome. And if this won’t happen in one year, I don’t want this outcome, either).

  Are there any loopholes?

• ajucJun 7, 2010, 7:55 PM

  −4 points

  in reply to: wedrifid’s comment on: The AI in a box boxes you

  If I am simulated the decision I will take is determined by AI not by my—I have no free will—I feel, that I make decision, but it is in reality the AI simulated me for her purposes in such a way, that I decided so and so—I assign probability 0.9999999 to this, but nothing depends on my decision here, so I can as well “try to decide” not to to let the AI out.

  If I am not simulated, I can safely not let the AI out—probability 0.000001, but positive outcome.