Horcruxing a spacecraft isn’t nearly the same thing as being able to do magics thought impossible by figuring out the general principles of magic.
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… The Power the Dark Lord knows not is Science. I thought that was obvious.
Reminds me of this.
Quirrell … now knows that it’s driving Snape no longer.
How?
“These are not all the fallen of all my wars,” Albus Dumbledore said. His back was to Harry, only his grey locks and yellowish robes showed. “Not even nearly all of them. Only my closest friends, and those who died of my worst decisions, there is something of them here. Those I regret most of all, this is their place.”
In other words, it’s weak enough to disregard completely.
Except that Dumbledore’s pretty sure Hermione won’t be sent to Azkaban. No reason not to take his word on this.
That’s possible too, I guess, but it’d be rather hypocritical on Harry’s part given how insistent he is, in the very same conversation, about clearly distinguishing between observation and inference.
Reasonably sure Eliezer did that intentionally. It’s very much his style.
Edit: This whole idea is a joke on the reader as well. So you’re convinced Snape is S and Dumbledore is Santa Claus? But all you observed was Snape burning some letters that could help Hermione, and Dumbledore saying “you know me too well” (note: not a real admission).
(Of course, considering prior probabilities shows that these doubts would be unreasonable. But the same holds for the first letter-writer being the same person as Santa Claus. All told, it looks like Eliezer’s poking fun at Harry’s “Observations, not inferences!!” diktat.)
He studied computer science and math as an undergraduate, before “discovering that he could get paid for doing the kind of thinking he was doing for free already”.
Somehow, this had never occurred to me, although connecting the dots it was obvious someone had to be paying these guys.
Intriguing idea, though. How likely is a J. Random Philosopher to make a good living?
Answered here.
If Grail Wars do occur in this continuity, I’d be very surprised if Riddle didn’t visit their site when he was wandering the world looking for knowledge and power.
But I doubt that the reference is anything more than yet another shout-out.
Lesson learned:
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains is often more improbable than your having made a mistake with one of your impossiblity proofs.
(However, if the Sorting Hat is summoned again, during the trial, this time with Pervenit Judex, I shall be very, very, tempted to conclude that Eliezer is just trolling us.)
I notice I get almost no type 0s/2bs at the end of this simulation.
The 0s quickly die out or (more rarely) ascend to 2a/2b, and the 2bs quickly ascend to 3.
(And this is before implementing the ‘3s kill everything in their path’ thing.)
The official policy is “new thread after 500 comments”. It looks like this is going to turn into a serious annoyance; two chapters pushed the last one to 500+ in 10 days, and there are another 5 chapters coming up soon.
agonist disorder
Doesn’t look like there was an outbreak in Fuyuki. Besides, it’s made clear that Quirrell never actually visited the place.
The 5th Holy Grail War takes place around 2003, with the 4th 10 years before during 1993
Which means that either (a) Kayneth Archibald el-Melloi will be replaced by Lucius Malfoy or (b) the dates need to be moved around.
Go to Azkaban and round up a few hundred dementors.
Harry would never use dementors as his army.
Before the Heaven’s Feel arc, you mean.
was it worth it to make such a hubbub with such a supremely, well, boring answer?
Yes. That was the point of the whole incident.
Note: The comment you replied to was edited heavily since after it was posted.
Something about badness, child abuse and Snape still being a @#$% no matter who he is secretly working for.
Ok, what do all these words like “evil” and “badness” and “dickishness” mean? What do they cause you to anticipate? Apart from Snape bullying children, which no one’s denying he does.
Your justification for calling him “evil” is “he bullies children, which is evil, therefore he’s evil”. Your justification for that is “there are certain things that are evil; there just are”. And of course if bullying is evil and doing evil things makes a person evil, then Snape is evil, he’s evil because you’re defining evil that way.
And then you’re sneaking in all the connotations associated with the word “evil”, whether you want to admit to it or not. (If you aren’t, then the only thing you should anticipate from labelling Snape as “evil” is that he bullies children. If that’s the case, it’s a semantic dispute. If it isn’t, you’re sneaking in a connotation somewhere.)
As for Elmer, let me paraphrase his point:
Snape, in the earlier books, performed actions that made me classify him as “evil”. Then, later, her performed actions better suited to the label “good”. No fair! He can’t really be “good”!
Note the conflation of “good” actions with the “good” label, as if doing “good” things was a right exclusive to “good” people.
How is that not a two-color view? Or did I misunderstand something?
Nobody was arguing by definition. This doesn’t apply to anything I have done either.
Reread this.
Your claim: (paraphrased)
A binary classification of people into “good” and “evil” is possible. I define certain actions as “evil”, and classify people who perform those actions as “evil”. Snape performs those actions, therefore, he is evil.
I seem to have missed this part, though:
That doesn’t mean he must be on the enemy team, he could well be a bad guy that plays for the same side Harry does and otherwise does some positive things.
Which is more or less exactly what I’d anticipate, meaning that this whole debate is over semantics.
I’m just going to claim the Godwin’s violation and leave it alone.
Looking at TVTropes, I find that Godwin’s Law is defined more broadly than I’d thought it was. OK, you win.
Trying to implement this in Python. With the given probabilities, around 170-180 civs spawn in 2000 epochs, but none of them ever transition to type II.
Is this the expected result or is there a bug in my code?
Edit: Was a bug.
This was discussed before.
Doesn’t look like Harry’s masterplan involves the Sorting Hat.