Joshua Hobbes
I think that the new information 78 would give us to discuss ought to balance out the cliffhanger, no matter how large.
Also, I wonder if Harry might use the Headmasters conclusions about the return of the Dark Lord to request private lessons. Most likely not Horcrux-related lessons, but similiar to what Ron and Hermione expected Dumbledore to teach him in Canon. In this universe Love is certainly not Harry’s Deus ex Machina, so Dumbledore ought to want him to be more competent in Battle Magic.
Hermione is far from perfect, but she’s nonetheless the most traditionally-moral person at Hogwarts. I think Harry is correct not to want to emulate her entirely, yet still respect her enough to ask her advice on morally ambiguous issues.
If you tried to lick a dementor would you tongue be stuck to it?
He already tried to subdivide 78, and it didn’t work out. But frankly I’d read it even if it cut off midsentence.
Forgive my confusion, but did you conclude that Killing Lincoln was or was not the best book on the Lincoln Assassination?
I’m not the only one getting a somewhat cult-like vibe from this, am I?
But really, this seems incredibly impractical. A few Lesswrongians meeting up and getting high are not going to solve the world’s problems. Not that Cannabis might not be of some assistance to actual experts, but simply being rational does not immediately qualify you to solve very much.
If there are any negative repercussions of Horcrux-making in MoR, and I’m fairly certain there are, I should think Quirrell would have no good reason to make any Horcruxes besides the one. It’s absolutely unreachable, why damage your soul any further?
“Status update, Jan 19 2012: Now working on Ch. 81. I think I’d really better finish at least Ch. 81 before posting Ch. 78, due to the number of backward edits I’ve been making, and the extent to which they form a dramatic unity that should be posted regularly/predictably after the first chapter hits.”
Well, it’s nice that we didn’t need to ask for a progress update. About how long might 81 turn out to be?
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The more I realize taking his time will make the story even better, the more I want to read the story right now. I do hope this arc isn’t as enormous as SA.
I’m always intrigued by these experiments. If the box AI is not confirmed to be friendly, everything it says and promises is absolutely unreliable. I don’t see how the arguments of such an entity could be at all convincing.
So the key to containing an AI is to have a technologically-ignorant rationalist babysit it?
I wouldn’t identify myself as an altruist, but I can see that it would not be to my advantage not to loose a non-friendly god-like power upon the world. The way I see it releasing the AI is like casting the Wabbajack at Earth.
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Now that Eliezer is writing at a decent pace again I’m just desperate for progress updates.
The worst part is that unlike with actual updates we might get them at any time. So I check multiple times per day just to see if he’s going to tell us how many words he wrote last night.
So, you guys think Harry is going to immediately start on destroying Lord Jugson?
That would take effort he could be spending on coming up with in-story puzzles.
But yeah, scheduled progress updates would be spectacular. Even if he hasn’t written anything, I’d rather know that than nothing.
So, am I a second-class citizen because I found this place via MoR?
Anyways, I’ve been Homeschooled for the majority of my education thus far, mostly due to my Creationist parents’ concerns about government-run schools. Fortunately they didn’t think to censor the internet, and here I am. My PSATs showed me in the 98th percentile, so I expect I’ll be able to get into a decent university. Plan A has always been Engineering, but after going through a few of the more inspirational sequences I think I may readjust my plans and try to do some good for this planet. How does one get into the Singularity business?