The spell in progress that may kill hundreds of students that the stone can fix — sounds like something transfigured into a gas.
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Not (very) applicable if you have a strong gender identity: I’d always been fairly confused as to whether I was a woman or a man, neither one really fit quite right. Five years ago I met my first person who identified as genderqueer, but generalizing from that (one) example I thought it a mere label—I didn’t see how their behavior diverged substantially from their sex given gender. Last year or so, The Third Alternative, Keeping Your Identity Small, and applying being a linguistic descriptivist to my broader life came together. I’m a person, more or less human, and that’s it. One can choose null (but of course, the vast majority of acquaintances won’t notice...).
Ionizing Radiation—preferably expressed as synthetic heat or pain with a tolerable cap. The various types could be differentiated, by location or flavor, but mostly it’s the warning that matters.
You cannot transfigure from air, hard physical limit. Harry tested this.
I’ve been introducing rationality not by name, but by description. As in, “I’ve been working on forming more accurate beliefs and taking more effective action.”
It started happening well before the story was complete...
I had always modeled part of the appeal of workout/gym is that one doesn’t need to coordinate with other people.
My thoughts are that you probably havn’t read Malcolm’s post on communication cultures, or you disagree.
Roughly, different styles of communication cultures (guess, ask, tell) are supported by mutual assumptions of trust in different things (and product hurt and confusion in the absence of that trust). Telling someone you would enjoy a hug is likely to harm a relationship where the other person’s assumptions are aligned with ask or guess, even if you don’t expect the other person to automatically hug you!
You need to coordinate with people on what type of and which particular culture to use (and that coordination usually happens through inference and experimentation). I certainly expect people who happen to coordinate on a Tell Culture to do better, but I doubt that it works as an intervention, unless they make the underlying adjustments in trust.
I mean, he just forged a note “from yourself”
Or Harry just wrote a note that looked like Quirrell had forged it, to help his past-self figure it out at the appropriate time.
Might much of happiness comes from positional goods rather than absolute goods?
The zip file has some extra Apple metadata files included. Nothing too revealing, just dropbox bits.
Alastor Moody went to Minerva’s right and sat down.
…
Amelia Bones sat down in a chair, taking Minerva’s right. Mad-Eye Moody took the chair to her own right.
Oops!
You cannot date independently. Dating requires at least one other person. One of the amazing things about programming is that I can sit down anywhere at any time and create. Computers are handy, but even pencil and paper will do in a pinch.
A friend of mine was raised with the knowledge of Santa Claus being a part of what goes along with Christmas for lots of people, but not actually real. Apparently they met one of the dressed up Santa’s around town as a three year old and...
Santa: (stereotypical santa greeting)
Friend: I was a rabbit for Holloween.
Santa: Tough customer, eh?
This is why I don’t take promises of a post-scarcity society very seriously. They seem to think in terms of leaps in production technology, as if the key to ending scarcity is producing lots and lots of stuff.
Is this simply a matter of people using the word scarcity differently?
When someone talks about a post-scarcity future, I doubt that they are thinking about a future without choice between alternatives, but indeed a future without unmet needs of one sort or another. Indeed, such futures tend to have a bewildering amount of choice and alternative uses of time.
Birth Year vs Foom:
A bit less striking than the famous enough to have Google pop up their birth year subset (green).
I am poly with a toddler. Polyness doesn’t seem to come into my parenting much beyond that there are more people who care more strongly about my child’s well being. (My co-parent and I provide all the care.)
The article isn’t so much about Reiki as about intentionally utilizing the placebo effect in medicine. And that there is some evidence that, for the group of people that currently believe (medicine x) is effective, the placebo effect of fake (medicine x) may be stronger than that of fake (medicine y) and (medicine x) has fewer medically significant side effects than (medicine y).
You might say that they are both traps, at least from a truth seeker’s perspective. The arrogant will not question their belief sufficiently; the humble will not sufficiently believe.
Your question is: after an airliner accident, how often do any of the next n flights following the same route also have an accident?
Guessing (2/3 confidence) lower than the base rate.