The had blinders as far as lying goes. Their species was simply incapable of it.
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Because he’s insane.
True, but it doesn’t have to actually communicate anything to its peers at azkaban. People just need to believe it did. It’s obviously threatened in the middle of a court room, then starts flying to azkaban. Most people are going to presume that after something like that the dementors would leave Hermione alone. If they are consensus!dementors, not some-motive!dementors they’ll still leave her alone, because people will believe they will leave her alone.
if they’re some-motive!dementors, they’ll leave her alone because they don’t want to die. Either way he wins.
Because harry can carry through on his threats, and it seems the standard mental model for dementors has them being self-serving. A dementor should respond to threats, as far as I can tell.
When I was arguing this I was also taking into account that albus (and the great hall) had seen the dementor be afraid of harry, but it occurs to me that that was in the future.
Yeah, I’m not arguing the point. I just have a weird sense of humour and “Because he’s insane” tickles my funny bone.
My running theory is because he’s a horcrux, but it’s hard to say. Apparently there’s one point where this fix departed from cannon, if we can pin point that you’ll have your answer.
Alright, fine. An actual non-sarcastic answer. He plays with the trope of being insane. He’s entire chaos legion cackles maniacally. He is very certain of strange ideas that are almost the opposite of that his experienced elders believe, about their areas of expertise.
From that point of view it’s easy to see why people would think he’s crazy. Not to mention the simple fact that he doesn’t adhere to social rules like normal people do.
Morals are axioms. They’re ultimately arbitrary. Relying on arguments with logic and reason for deciding the axioms of your morals is silly, go with what feels right. Then use logic and reason to best actualize on those beliefs. Try to trace morality too far down and you’ll realize it’s all ultimately pointless, or at least there’s no single truth to the matter.
Even if the hypothesis that they don’t really think, just behave in a way that people think they will, is true; it’s phrased in such a way as to cause doubt in the purple-robes (the use of “just say yes or no” to make them think there’s more information then they’re getting) and belief in albus. If it just answers “yes” to the first question, it’s still plausible within the purple robes belief sets, but hopefully makes harry seem mysterious enough that they believe the next question can also be a yes. Then albus, who’s a true believer, pushes the consensus reality over to a yes with his understanding that harry has the power to destroy them.
I’m not suggesting that any emotion should be attached to the lack of a great truth or true indisputable morals; I’m simply stating the obvious,
Harry with the ability to invent potions would be powerful enough to wreck the story.
Harry with time travel would be enough to wreak the story. Harry with an invisibility cloak would be enough to wreak the story, Hell, harry with rationality would be enough to wreak the story.
That is, unless the other obstacles were ramped up to deal with it. Give Harry a time turner and enemies clever enough to know how to check on him. Give harry an invisibility cloak but add spells that can detect the presence of a deathly hallow. Give Harry mastery of potions but make creating them slow or just plain difficult.
“even stopper death”
What I got from that was snape claiming to be able to temporarily store or stop death. To extend someones life. Not a great interpretation in hindsight, but I was ~ten the last time I heard that line so I’ll forgive myself.
In this case my judgement of the probabilities is that we are completely justified in ignoring the threat.
Do you consider my pascals mugging to be less likely then the general examples of the genre, or do you think that all pascals muggings” probabilities are that we are completely justified in ignoring the threat.”
Fair enough. Would you mind explaining your intent then?
Well done. Roryokane mentioned it up here however.
Ahh, makes sense. I actually found many different and interesting solutions to pascals mugging with my search terms though. Just not this “counter” solution.
This thread already shows up pretty close to the top for searches of “pascals mugging solutions” that I’ve attempted. For that exact phrase it’s number 3, and has been before you posted this. I don’t know that this particular solution needs to be more closely associated with the search terms then it already is.
Because I doubt I can remember all of them. Also, I’m not entirely clear on why you have “quotes” around search-fu. It’s a pretty accepted term on the internet. Search-fu is the skill one is employing when searching for something.
A more reasonable question seems to me like asking how I arrived at the answer, not asking how I failed to arrive at the answer. I find it odd that you’d go that particular route, and would be very interested if you could expand on why you wanted to see all of my failed attempts, instead of my one successful attempt?
Seeing all my failed attempts is more difficult for me to write out (there were a few of them) and contains less usable information. I’m curios as to why you’d pick that instead of what seems to me like the more reasonable “post the search term that got you the answer”.
I never threatened to harm you. Yes, on average, you’re significantly more likely to be in the torture group then where you are now, but anthropic principle and all that.
Not quite in the same class as the listed software. Useful, I’ve used them, but they get really complicated with more variables. If you look at what they’ve got, it doesn’t exactly seem bayesian. They don’t work of probability, but off of absolute truths. Debating each piece of minutia in a sort of tree structure. It could definitely be improved upon.
Hopefully albus’s belief would be enough to bolster them even if they don’t have a mind if their own. If they do have a mind of their own they can be threatened, and have been in the past.