For example, some people see the school system failing at all its stated goals and assume the school system is broken, and they can point to institutional reasons why it’s terrible. Hanson assumes it is optimized to serve other, implicit goals. I’m not convinced either viewpoint is necessarily true.
I’m not saying that assuming efficiency and looking at actual accomplishment is a wrong paradigm, or that Hanson doesn’t use this paradigm frequently. What I’m saying is that ‘Hansonism’ involves all sorts of skeptical/cynical/outside-view approaches, and Lucius and Draco, as presented, fail almost every metric—they are obviously biased, in self-serving ways, they make and track no predictions, they do privilege their ethical views … etc. etc. etc. (A thorough read of OB will turn up dozens of techniques and views and criteria which the House of Malfoy miserably fails.)
If anything, the single most Hansonian character in MoR is Harry and Draco becomes Hansonian only insofar as he is becoming more like Harry.
Surely the most Hansonian character is the (as yet unknown) wizard who created house elves?
Or possibly the elves themselves. If Dobby starts running a prediction market in the Hogwarts kitchens, I called it first :)
That would be hilarious. House-elves could be very clever, but they are obsessed with particular topics. So EY could write them as excellent rationalists who are focused only on Hogwarts matters, and as excellent rationalists they would set up prediction markets about various predictions (students’ grades, their cleanliness, relationships, popularity of reducing the salt in the mutton, etc.)
I’m afraid you don’t get to call it because your comment might inspire EY to add them in the first place. :)
I’m not sure it’s “just good sense.”
For example, some people see the school system failing at all its stated goals and assume the school system is broken, and they can point to institutional reasons why it’s terrible. Hanson assumes it is optimized to serve other, implicit goals. I’m not convinced either viewpoint is necessarily true.
I’m not saying that assuming efficiency and looking at actual accomplishment is a wrong paradigm, or that Hanson doesn’t use this paradigm frequently. What I’m saying is that ‘Hansonism’ involves all sorts of skeptical/cynical/outside-view approaches, and Lucius and Draco, as presented, fail almost every metric—they are obviously biased, in self-serving ways, they make and track no predictions, they do privilege their ethical views … etc. etc. etc. (A thorough read of OB will turn up dozens of techniques and views and criteria which the House of Malfoy miserably fails.)
If anything, the single most Hansonian character in MoR is Harry and Draco becomes Hansonian only insofar as he is becoming more like Harry.
Surely the most Hansonian character is the (as yet unknown) wizard who created house elves? Or possibly the elves themselves. If Dobby starts running a prediction market in the Hogwarts kitchens, I called it first :)
That would be hilarious. House-elves could be very clever, but they are obsessed with particular topics. So EY could write them as excellent rationalists who are focused only on Hogwarts matters, and as excellent rationalists they would set up prediction markets about various predictions (students’ grades, their cleanliness, relationships, popularity of reducing the salt in the mutton, etc.)
I’m afraid you don’t get to call it because your comment might inspire EY to add them in the first place. :)