This is interesting. From the end of Ch. 89:
Unseen by anyone, the Defense Professor’s lips curved up in a thin smile. Despite its little ups and downs, on the whole this had been a surprisingly good day
From Ch. 46, after Harry destroys the dementor:
I must admit, Mr. Potter, that although it has had its ups and downs, on the whole, this has been a surprisingly good day.
A person is said to exhibit rational irrationality when it is instrumentally rational for him to be epistemically irrational. An instrumentally rational person chooses the best strategies to achieve his goals. An epistemically irrational person ignores and evades evidence against his beliefs, holds his beliefs without evidence or with only weak evidence, has contradictions in his thinking, employs logical fallacies in belief formation, and exhibits characteristic epistemic vices such as closed-mindedness. Epistemically irrational political beliefs can reinforce one’s self-image; boost one’s self-esteem; make one feel noble, smart, superior, safe, or comfortable; and can help achieve conformity with the group and thus facilitate social acceptance. Thus, epistemic irrationality can be instrumentally rational.
If I falsely believe the road I am crossing is free of cars, I might die. So I have a strong incentive to form beliefs about the road in a rational way. However, if I falsely believe that import quotas are good for the economy, this has no directly harmful effects. (On the contrary, the belief can have significant instrumental value. It might make me feel patriotic; serve my xenophobia; serve as an outlet to rationalize, sublimate, or redirect racist attitudes; or help me pretend to have solidarity with union workers.) … Epistemic rationality is hard and takes self-discipline.
When it comes to politics, individuals have every incentive to indulge their irrational impulses. Demand for irrational beliefs is like demand for most other goods. The lower the cost, the more will be demanded. The cost to the typical voter of voting in epistemically irrational ways is nearly zero. The cost of overcoming bias and epistemic irrationality is high. The psychological benefit of this irrationality is significant. Thus, voters demand a high amount of epistemic irrationality.
Jason Brennan, The Ethics of Voting, p.173-74
Shouldn’t Harry have fallen to his knees twenty seconds earlier, if he originally heard/saw the explosion via Voldie-simulcast?
Why are Hermione’s robes red? Does Voldie want her to be Gryffindor?
But unless you bought Draco Malfoy’s latest theory that Professor Sprout had been assigning and grading less homework around the time of Hermione being framed for attempted murder, thereby proving that Professor Sprout had been spending her time setting it up, the truth remained unfound.
So Imperiused-Sprout is Hat and Cloak?
We are nearing the end of the school year, after all.
Edit for clarity: referring to the curse on the Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching position.
Important: QQ’s earlier parseltongue-spoken plans for Harry to become ruler of the world were said before he heard the ‘tear apart the stars’ prophecy. So it appears V changed his mind after hearing the prophecy.
Snape kills Dumbledore?
Is there a page that lists all of the unresolved hints/clues in MoR? For example, Remembrall-like-a-sun, Bacon’s diary, etc.
Regarding Harry’s lack of surprise, isn’t it odd that he puts no effort into wearing the expression of someone who has no idea about Hermione’s body being missing?
He had vanished from where he was standing over the Weasley twins and come into existence beside Harry; George Weasley had discontinously teleported from where he was sitting to be kneeling next to his brother’s side
What’s going on here? Is it just that Harry isn’t paying attention to what’s happening around him?
Harry thought the deepest split in his personality wasn’t anything to do with his dark side; rather it was the divide between the altruistic and forgiving Abstract Reasoning Harry, versus the frustrated and angry Harry In The Moment.
This as well as the distant descendants part seems to draw on Robin’s near vs. far theory.
Why start the analysis at superhuman AGI? Why not solve the problem of aligning AI for the entire trajectory from current AI to superhuman AGI?
Now Hermione learns Patronus 2.0 and destroys Azkaban. So both the Boy-Who-Lived and the Girl-Who-Revived can kill dementors. Sounds like “surviving/defeating Voldemort” is a plausible cover for explaining the origin of the ability to destroy dementors.
I was astonished to find myself having ascended to the pantheon of those who have made major contributions to human knowledge
Is this your own evaluation of your work?
Should you “trust literatures, not papers”?
I replicated the literature on meritocratic promotion in China, and found that the evidence is not robust.
https://twitter.com/michael_wiebe/status/1750572525439062384
What was the effect of reservists joining the protests? This says: “Some 10,000 military reservists were so upset, they pledged to stop showing up for duty.” Does that mean they were actively ‘on strike’ from their duties? It looks like they’re now doing grassroots support (distributing aid).
Isn’t Harry saying this to Draco after Draco has been obliviated? Draco has no idea what Harry’s talking about.
“Harry, let me verify that your Time-Turner hasn’t been used,” said Professor McGonagall.
“LOOK OVER THERE!” Harry screamed, already sprinting for the door.