LeifBrown

• LeifBrown 28 Feb 2015 22:48 UTC

  8 points

  in reply to: bramflakes’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, Fe­bru­ary 2015, chap­ter 113

  “End” can also mean “goal”. This is somewhat interesting in light of EY’s work at MIRI.

• LeifBrown 28 Feb 2015 22:27 UTC

  8 points

  in reply to: LeifBrown’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, Fe­bru­ary 2015, chap­ter 113

  Solution submitted. Thus far, this thread does not include mention of what I would consider to be Harry’s greatest weapon.

  He hasn’t just been practicing “partial transfiguration”. He’s been successfully practicing discarding any notion of time, space, object or causality, in toto.

  To clarify: if you do away with time, you also radically change the meaning of space. It’s all just wave equations.

  I can’t bold that big enough.

• LeifBrown 28 Feb 2015 21:06 UTC

  2 points

  on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, Fe­bru­ary 2015, chap­ter 113

  Challenge accepted.

  I’ve already got the seed of a solution which I’ll be fleshing out and posting formally, later.

  (And it took me half an hour after coming up with it, to get here, register, and figure out how to post.)