I’m actually not sure how bright Harry’s supposed to be.
He’s not stupid, obviously. But, from a Watsonian perspective, he’s leaning very heavily on rationality skills and an unusual reading list for an 11-year-old, Hermione seems to have him beat in some respects as far as raw intelligence goes, and being the smartest person in a class of a hundred and change isn’t that great an achievement in the scheme of things.
From a Doylist perspective, making Harry get a lot of mileage out of raw intelligence would undermine the message Eliezer’s presumably trying to preach.
I’m actually not sure how bright Harry’s supposed to be.
He’s not stupid, obviously. But, from a Watsonian perspective, he’s leaning very heavily on rationality skills and an unusual reading list for an 11-year-old, Hermione seems to have him beat in some respects as far as raw intelligence goes, and being the smartest person in a class of a hundred and change isn’t that great an achievement in the scheme of things.
From a Doylist perspective, making Harry get a lot of mileage out of raw intelligence would undermine the message Eliezer’s presumably trying to preach.