Wacky theory: it sounds masculine because it ends in a consonant.
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And here we see that one person’s “self-improvement” is another person’s “creepy”...
Well, part of it is that Quirrel is Voldemort in canon, which is significant evidence that Harry doesn’t have.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to do a formal memorization of something that’s not based on any kind of scientific research.
Part of that seems to be from HPMOR. I’m not sure where the rest comes from.
On the other hand, one should consider not only what was said, but also what should have been said.
Neutral plot possibility: usually, dying minds aren’t felt in the wizarding world. Something unusual was going on, and I don’t know what it was.
This seems unlikely. There was a mention about ghosts being caused by “the burst of magic that accompanied the violent death of a wizard” (or something along those lines—I don’t feel like looking up the exact quote right now.)
Counter-evidence: Harry produces blue and bronze sparks at Ollivander’s.
As long as we’re sticking necks out, though:
Definitely: The horcrux technology uses the ghost phenomenon. Specifically, by causing the violent death of a wizard under controlled conditions (i.e., murder) it’s possible to harness the powerful burst of magic to make a ghost of the living caster instead of of the dying victim: a backup copy. A ghost may be static data rather than a running instance, but hey, so is a cryo patient.
Definitely: Baby Harry was overwritten with a horcrux-backup-copy of Voldemort. Voldemort didn’t plan on childhood amnesia, though, and much of the information was erased (or at least made harder to access consciously). The Remembrall-like-the-Sun indicated the forgotten lifetime as Riddle. Remnants of Voldemort’s memories are the reason Harrymort has a cold side; his upbringing in a loving family is the reason he has a warm side.
Mere hunch: In chapter 45, the Dementor recognized Harry as Voldemort and addressed him by name: “Riddle”.
Mere hunch: Voldemort may have chosen to impress his horcrux in a living human in order to try to get around the “static data” problem. If it had worked, he would have forked himself—there would have been two fully functional running instances of Voldemort, all the time, plus twelve hours a day worth of Time-copies.
It’s not obvious to me how to fake the soul releasing. It was perceived by the magic-sense, not just with the muggle senses.
Downvoted because I hate you.
(Nothing personal; I’m using the anti-kibitzer.)
Just because $CELEBRITY uses it that way doesn’t make it right. This usage is conflating two usefully distinct concepts.
It’s only testable in one direction—if you like, “never” is testable but “ever” isn’t. I don’t have a formal argument to hand, but it seems vaguely to me that a hypothesis preferably-ought to be falsifiable both ways.
The story is, in large part, about the structure of the story: Pluto’s tragic flaw is that he’s thinking about his real life in terms of story structure.
Consider the epistemic state of someone who knows that they have the attention of a vastly greater intelligence than themselves, but doesn’t know whether that intelligence is Friendly. An even-slightly-wrong CAI will modify your utility function, and there’s nothing you can do but watch it happen.
Not really relevant here, but I only just now got the pun in CFAR’s acronym.
You may be right, but I don’t trust a human to only arrive at that conclusion if it’s true. I think we ought to refrain from pressing D, just in case.
Depending on how smart I feel today, anywhere from −10 to 40 decibans.
(edit: I remember how log odds work now.)
I think a more plausible scenario for the atomic theory being wrong would be that the scientific community—and possibly the scientific method—is somehow fundamentally borked up.
Humans have come up with—and become strongly confident in—vast, highly detailed, completely nowhere-remotely-near-true theories before, and it’s pretty hard to tell from the inside whether you’re the one who won the epistemic lottery. They all think they have excellent reasons for believing they’re right.
You are way overconfident in your own sanity. What proportion of humans experience vivid, detailed hallucinations on a regular basis? (not counting dreams)
That’s a good point, but I’m still not convinced.
Hugging is, potentially, fast: if A tries to hug B and B pulls away, a hug has still occurred. Sex takes longer: there’s complicated steps involving disrobing and so forth. Your argument applies to, say, groping; but if B doesn’t want to cooperate then that becomes relevant before sex has occurred. It’s clear (“safe”, “take matters into her own hands”) that there is not a reliable way of getting out of sex.
Also, the dialogue (“Prohibition”, “too much”) seems to suggest social acceptance.