As is Tom Riddle. I imagine the point of divergence is in Tom Riddle’s childhood somewhere, which pushed Albus into consulting the maze of the future, which...
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Alastor Moody went to Minerva’s right and sat down.
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Amelia Bones sat down in a chair, taking Minerva’s right. Mad-Eye Moody took the chair to her own right.
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I had always modeled part of the appeal of workout/gym is that one doesn’t need to coordinate with other people.
Timing note: While this update was at 12pm Pacific, this is no longer the same as 8pm UTC, due to daylight savings time beginning in the US. I’m assuming tomorrow will be the same (at 19:00/7pm UTC)?
Your question is: after an airliner accident, how often do any of the next n flights following the same route also have an accident?
Guessing (2/3 confidence) lower than the base rate.
Nicholas Flamel is dead, at least according to Dumbledore. (Or tucked away for later secret extraction?)
Posit a world where sustenance, shelter, and well-being are magically provided—nobody actually needs to do anything to continue existing. This would be an instance of what is colloquially, and perhaps to an economist incorrectly, termed a post-scarcity society.
I’m less certain about this phrasing, I’m not yet comfortable with the semantics of the economic definition of scarce, but one could try: An society where only time and some luxuries are (economically) scarce.
This is why I don’t take promises of a post-scarcity society very seriously. They seem to think in terms of leaps in production technology, as if the key to ending scarcity is producing lots and lots of stuff.
Is this simply a matter of people using the word scarcity differently?
When someone talks about a post-scarcity future, I doubt that they are thinking about a future without choice between alternatives, but indeed a future without unmet needs of one sort or another. Indeed, such futures tend to have a bewildering amount of choice and alternative uses of time.
I wonder if this (distrusting imperfect algorithms more than imperfect people) holds for programmers and mathematicians. Indeed, the popular perception seems to be that such folks overly trust algorithms...
Different methods are more and less likely to lead one to the truth (in a given universe). I see little harm in calling those less likely arts dark. Rhetoric is surely grey at the lightest.
Adapting the Horcrux (2.0 in HPMoR) spell to make Amulets of Life Saving was the very first thing I thought of when considering ethical immortality in HPverse.
Hermione can always transfigure herself older—possibly with help from the stone—if that becomes a problem.
Voldemort believes that Harry “WILL TEAR APART THE VERY STARS IN HEAVEN” without Hermione. What wouldn’t you do to protect the person preventing that, given that you are willing to murder unknown hundreds for Horcruxes.
One does not get put back 49 years hard work toward immortality every day.
And might possibly have prompted Harry to insist on hearing about Bellatrix in Parselmouth.
You cannot transfigure from air, hard physical limit. Harry tested this.
I mean, he just forged a note “from yourself”
Or Harry just wrote a note that looked like Quirrell had forged it, to help his past-self figure it out at the appropriate time.
I could imagine calling all the changes that take place in one’s mind due to an event as the memory of that event—not just the ones that involve conscious recall. Still, to be a little more general, I would maybe frame it as process vs. consequences.
Though honestly I’m more interested in understanding the different types of mind-changes it is useful to have names for.
The spell in progress that may kill hundreds of students that the stone can fix — sounds like something transfigured into a gas.
The zip file has some extra Apple metadata files included. Nothing too revealing, just dropbox bits.