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- Manfred's comment on Open Thread, July 1-15, 2012 by OpenThreadGuy (4 Jul 2012 2:06 UTC; 4 points)
Biking Beyond Madness (link)
The spell hides current environment, except for a floor/ground “disk.” It could be oriented so that the sun is down and thus out of sight.
I do not recall Harry or Hermione requiring adult input to enter their contract except for McGonagall advising them on the form and possibility of such contract. Granted, it was overseen by the Wizengamot and their legal guardian, but if they could not have done it legally by themselves, we should have seen Dumbledore’s explicit approval instead of just lack of overruling it.
Less posts by Eliezer is bad.
Less work on Things Not To Be Discussed before May is much worse.
Strongly disagree on Political Compass being better. The questions are heavily loaded, the very first question being
If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.
and many questions such as
Astrology accurately explains many things.
aren’t at all about what should be done or what should be the state of things. What are you going to infer about my political beliefs based on my answer to that?
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Using the martial arts metaphor, at least Mensa appears to be more about having a lot of muscle, not about fighting skills, and there isn’t a strong agenda to improve either.
The random is not in the dice, it is in the throw, and that procedure is never identical. Also, XdY is a distribution, always the same, and the dice are just a relatively fair way of picking a sample.
As kpreid already said, that’s pretty much Crocker’s Rules, but few people can manage them, so assuming them or expecting people to declare them is a bad idea.
Thank you. It’s been a truly wonderful time. Not thanks to you alone, even if you were the driving factor. It will be difficult for anyone to fill your shoes, but then again, LW has shown many others having great promise, well enough that it can become a community much greater than it already is, and thus meaning success for you in this endeavour.
While I’m sad to see you give up your central role, for yours are the posts that I’ve in general found to be the most eye-opening and enjoyable, it is a also a relief to see you returning focus to the core job of SIAI, as it indicates greater confidence about your chances of success in that. Still it would be interesting to hear why you considered this detour from concentrating on FAI so important to do at the point you did it.
Blaming the Pioneer Plaque for the progressive degredation sounds like it makes sense at first, but the point of the Pioneer Plaque thing is that this Voldemort is supposed to be smarter than canon Voldemort, and a Pioneer Plaque horcrux superior. That theory makes the Pioneer Plaque horcrux inferior.
Smart people still overlook things. A lightspeed delay problem in horcrux syncing would not have come up ever before, so it could have been easily overlooked even by a very smart person, especially one that is not scientifically oriented. If he had been more scientifically oriented and been otherwise interested in Muggle space programs, this possibility might have occured to him and he could have tested it with the moon missions, if he had come up with a way to detect anticipated problems.
(Osmo A.) Wiio’s first law of communication
Communication usually fails, except by accident
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They wanted to be able to testify under veritaserum that they had not been profiting.
From “So you do really care” and his well-established view that most people are painfully stupid, he should deduce also the latter, as it is more unlikely that Harry is both exceptionally rational and exceptionally caring unless he has a reason to believe that the former causes or at least strongly correlates with the latter.
Then again, someone who has a low opinion of others’ intelligence should already believe that others are not rational enough to seek resurrection, even if they cared to want it.
By applying software patches that detect hardware faults and compensate or work around them.
I don’t know of such cases. From http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/neuropreservationfaq.html
“Neuroseparation” is performed by surgical removal of the body below the neck at the level of the sixth cervical vertebra at a temperature near 0ºC. - - The cephalon (head), is then perfused with cryoproectants via the carotid and vertebral arteries prior to deep cooling. For neuropatients cryopreserved before the year 2000, neuroseparation was performed at the end of cryoprotective perfusion via the aorta.
If I understand correctly, at least Alcor’s current procedure for neuropreservation would be compatible with removing organs to be donated.
A: ”. [] Do you understand?” B: “I understand.”
I claim that in normal human communication that type of exchange is viewed as B accepting what A says, unless B somehow signals explicit disagreement. Then, if B knows this, and assumes that A thinks likes this, and only explicitly affirms understanding while withholding knowledge of their disagreement, B is at the very least deceiving A.
Of course Moody should know to be more paranoid in what he forbids Harry from doing. Especially with him having witnessed Harry showing cunning and paranoia on a level he finds promising.
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