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Ok is Yudkowsky actually dumb enough to try and sell his fanfiction on a copyrighted work or is that someone else?
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# ? Apr 11, 2015 01:14 |
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# ? May 19, 2024 11:17 |
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It's someone else. Yud is merely dumb enough to contact Daniel Radcliffe to try to get permission to publish it. e: And this is why I have such a beef with this fanfic. There's a lot of dumb fanfics, but I draw the line at spreading misinformation and fostering a fanbase of smug, self-righteous "rationalists". Telarra fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Apr 11, 2015 |
# ? Apr 11, 2015 01:22 |
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Moddington posted:It's someone else. Yud is merely dumb enough to contact Daniel Radcliffe to try to get permission to publish it. Wait what? What does Daniel Radcliffe have to do with Harry Potter, besides playing the main character in the movies?
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# ? Apr 11, 2015 08:40 |
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Mikl posted:Wait what? What does Daniel Radcliffe have to do with Harry Potter, besides playing the main character in the movies? What does writing Harry Potter fan fiction have to do with researching AI?
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# ? Apr 11, 2015 14:51 |
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Chapter 10: Self Awareness, Part II Part 2 quote:
Nah. What other people feel like when talking to Eliezarry is “What an insufferable brat”. quote:
It’s telling that Eliezarry is always willing to resort to threats in any circumstances. quote:
My sentiments exactly. quote:
But why would it be “Sorting Eliezarry falsely” if the Hat put him in Slytherin? In “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”, the Hat sung “Or perhaps in Slytherin / You'll make your real friends / Those cunning folks use any means / To achieve their ends”. “Use any means to achieve [his] ends” perfectly describes Eliezarry’s actions so far. JosephWongKS fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Apr 15, 2015 |
# ? Apr 14, 2015 08:48 |
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But Harriezer knows (after five minutes in the wizarding world) enough about slytherin to know it's house strawman.
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# ? Apr 14, 2015 14:52 |
It is interesting, in a way, that this version of Harry - who did not grow up being, at best, neglected and belittled - is a shitload more prone to threaten and blackmail people. Like, not even dark or generalized ones, or threatening to never be someone's friend or whatever.
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# ? Apr 14, 2015 18:20 |
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Nessus posted:It is interesting, in a way, that this version of Harry - who did not grow up being, at best, neglected and belittled - is a shitload more prone to threaten and blackmail people. Like, not even dark or generalized ones, or threatening to never be someone's friend or whatever. It's almost like not being pampered and appeased your whole life allows you to develop a sense of humility.
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# ? Apr 14, 2015 19:20 |
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I'm not seeing why he shouldn't be in Slytherin. He's much more interested in power and leverage than knowledge. Knowledge is a means to an end for him, nothing more.
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# ? Apr 14, 2015 20:37 |
Night10194 posted:I'm not seeing why he shouldn't be in Slytherin. He's much more interested in power and leverage than knowledge. Knowledge is a means to an end for him, nothing more.
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# ? Apr 14, 2015 20:47 |
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Because Jud took one look at Ravenclaw and got a massive boner, so Harriezer has to be in Ravenclaw.
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# ? Apr 14, 2015 20:49 |
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petrol blue posted:Because Jud took one look at Ravenclaw and got a massive boner, so Harriezer has to be in Ravenclaw. More like Ravenclaw is the Smart People house and Yud thinks Harriezer is Smart, so he has to be there. Ravenclaw is what Yud wants to think he is.
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# ? Apr 14, 2015 20:52 |
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Harry is about to get sorted into Torture Simulation number 4564735485.
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# ? Apr 14, 2015 21:46 |
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SSNeoman posted:Harry is about to get sorted into Torture Simulation number 4564735485.
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# ? Apr 14, 2015 22:05 |
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You know something funny? In addition to all being Gryffindor, the Big Three of the Harry Potter books all kind of represent the other three houses. Hermione has a Ravenclaw's love of knowledge, obviously, but Ron is kind of a salt-of-the-earth Hufflepuff there to ground the other characters, and Harry is half Slytherin: he's a natural leader, he ignores rules that get in his way, he's prone to fits of anger, and he tends to judge people before getting to know them. It's got nothing to do with HPMoR, I just happened to think about it now.
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# ? Apr 14, 2015 23:27 |
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:he's a natural leader, he ignores rules that get in his way, he's prone to fits of anger, and he tends to judge people before getting to know them. I mean, that's sort of supposed to be a core tension. The Hat even tells him as much in the real books: "You could be one of them, you'd do amazingly well."
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# ? Apr 15, 2015 00:02 |
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Night10194 posted:I mean, that's sort of supposed to be a core tension. The Hat even tells him as much in the real books: "You could be one of them, you'd do amazingly well." I wouldn't call it a core tension, exactly, since the decision's made in the first book and only referenced once afterwards. A lot of people seem to dismiss Slytherin as "the bad guy house" and forget that it's also the house that the main character was equally qualified to join, personality-wise.
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# ? Apr 15, 2015 04:42 |
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:I wouldn't call it a core tension, exactly, since the decision's made in the first book and only referenced once afterwards. A lot of people seem to dismiss Slytherin as "the bad guy house" and forget that it's also the house that the main character was equally qualified to join, personality-wise. To be fair Harry does spend a lot of canon deeply upset about Slytherin in general.
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# ? Apr 15, 2015 05:05 |
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:I wouldn't call it a core tension, exactly, since the decision's made in the first book and only referenced once afterwards. A lot of people seem to dismiss Slytherin as "the bad guy house" and forget that it's also the house that the main character was equally qualified to join, personality-wise. Well, it is a point that Rowling references multiple times in subsequent books
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# ? Apr 15, 2015 05:12 |
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Well maybe people wouldn't view Slytherin as the "bad guy house" if Rowling had given them some redeeming characters, other than Malfoy's eventual development. And even that comes after he spends six and a half novels being a gigantic shithead.
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# ? Apr 15, 2015 05:29 |
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Chapter 10: Self Awareness, Part II Part 3 quote:
Wait wait wait. Setting aside the fact (as mentioned earlier) that Sorting Eliezarry into Slytherin would already be perfectly aligned with Eliezarry’s actions so far. The “blackmail” that Eliezarry threatened was “If you don't answer my questions, I'll refuse to talk to you, and you won't be able to do a good and proper Sorting.” But the Hat can read Eliezarry’s mind, so why would the Hat need Eliezarry to “talk” to the Hat in order to Sort Eliezarry? quote:
“Stop your pointless fretting and move on” is the best advice that anyone has given Eliezarry so far. quote:
Luna was in Ravenclaw and she was one of the warmest characters in the series, though. JosephWongKS fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Apr 16, 2015 |
# ? Apr 15, 2015 05:31 |
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Sigh. The hat was doing so well at being immune to the NPC stupidity field that surrounds Eliezarry. Now 'If you don't talk to the telepathic hat it can't sort you and it will be sad' blackmail. Then it proceeds to READ HIS MIND not 4 paragraphs later. How has Harry had time to learn about all of these houses anyway?
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# ? Apr 15, 2015 05:45 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:Well maybe people wouldn't view Slytherin as the "bad guy house" if Rowling had given them some redeeming characters, other than Malfoy's eventual development. And even that comes after he spends six and a half novels being a gigantic shithead. To be fair, ten years before the series begins, the Wizarding World was being terrorized by the genocidal great-great-great-...grandson of Salazar Slytherin. From what we know of the Sorting Hat, it seems to give every student a chance to say yes or no to a house, so it's no surprise that ten years after the war ends, Slytherin is populated with the "Wizard Hitler Did Nothing Wrong" crowd, and perfectly fine people who'd otherwise fit into Slytherin are all "you know what put me in another house." Slughorn is the most decent Slytherin in the books, and he's also the only Slytherin character in the books who was sorted into the house and graduated before Voldemort came along.
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# ? Apr 15, 2015 06:46 |
WingsOfSteel posted:Slughorn is the most decent Slytherin in the books, and he's also the only Slytherin character in the books who was sorted into the house and graduated before Voldemort came along.
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# ? Apr 15, 2015 07:08 |
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JosephWongKS posted:Luna was in Ravenclaw and she was one of the warmest characters in the series, though. The hat didn't say that Ravenclaw as a cold house, it said that Ravenclaw would strengthen Harriezer's coldness. As a sidenote: I'm pretty sure that Rowling has said that under not Voldemorte influenced circumstances Ravenclaw is actually the house that produces the most dark wizards.
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# ? Apr 15, 2015 09:00 |
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anilEhilated posted:Snape. Uh, by some definitions of "decent". Snape might be on the side of the "good guys" but he is still a tremendously lovely person.
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# ? Apr 15, 2015 09:04 |
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Chapter 10: Self Awareness, Part II Part 4 quote:
That’s more self-awareness than I’d expected from quote:
I’d agree that Eliezarry doesn’t belong with the Hufflepuffs, but that’s because he’s too much of an rear end in a top hat rather than because he’s too smart for them. What a thoroughly obnoxious twit. quote:
Has Eliezarry completely failed to read any biographies or just general world history? Historically, the people who’ve achieved the most are those who were able to mobilize, unite and lead others, not those who were merely individually talented. quote:
“I am not Dark Lord material”, said the boy whose first reaction to any conflict or obstacle is to throw a tantrum or try to browbeat, threaten or blackmail the other person.
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 08:42 |
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JosephWongKS posted:Has Eliezarry completely failed to read any biographies or just general world history? Historically, the people who’ve achieved the most are those who were able to mobilize, unite and lead others, not those who were merely individually talented. Killing the Great Man theory of history is really hard, when it's simple and an awful lot of fiction reinforces it. The key word there is fiction, mind you. In reality, we might know Napoleon's name, and the name of his closest lieutenants, but you can be drat sure he had a lot of other underlings whose work was just as essential to how things played out. The unsung captains, clerks, line infantry, etc who all contributed to the collective endeavor of making Europe poo poo itself, then biting off too much to chew and losing. Night10194 fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Apr 16, 2015 |
# ? Apr 16, 2015 08:45 |
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JosephWongKS posted:That’s more self-awareness than I’d expected from
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 09:43 |
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Not in the same way that doing experiments and testing ideas is. Helps of course that his guesses and speculation are always correct.
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 10:15 |
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How loving annoyed are the rest of the students right now, who just want to get on with the feast?
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 11:35 |
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MorgaineDax posted:How loving annoyed are the rest of the students right now, who just want to get on with the feast? "Goddammit, just pick a loving house already!" -Albus Dumbledore.
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 23:08 |
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Davros1 posted:"Goddammit, just pick a loving house already!" "Screw it, you get Hagrid's shack."
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 23:30 |
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I'd watch the hell outta that sitcom.
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 23:43 |
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The hat could solve the whole problem just by going "lol bye bitch" and yelling RAVENCLAW, thus ending the debate.
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# ? Apr 17, 2015 00:57 |
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Only possible way I'm not going to be disappointed with this never-ending hat scene:
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# ? Apr 17, 2015 01:05 |
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quote:I am not Dark Lord material! quote:On the other hand, one competent hedge fundie could probably own the whole wizarding world within a week. Harry filed away this notion in case he ever ran out of money, or had a week free. quote:You're mine now, Harry thought at the walls of Diagon Alley, and all the shops and items, and all the shopkeepers and customers; and all the lands and people of wizarding Britain, and all the wider wizarding world; and the entire greater universe of which Muggle scientists understood so much less than they believed. I, Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres, do now claim this territory in the name of Science. quote:"With respect, Mr. Potter, I'm quite sure I don't. Unless - this is just a guess, mind - you're trying to take over the world?" quote:Harry cracked his knuckles in determination, but they only made a quiet sort of clicking sound, rather than echoing ominously off the walls of Diagon Alley. quote:"World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation." quote:Note to self: Overthrow government of magical Britain at earliest convenience. quote:I wonder how difficult it would be to just make a list of all the top blood purists and kill them. quote:I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised." quote:"I'd like you to help me take over the universe." quote:I am not Dark Lord material!
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# ? Apr 17, 2015 05:18 |
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He's not, though. He has the inclination, but not the ability.
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# ? Apr 17, 2015 05:24 |
Night10194 posted:He's not, though. He has the inclination, but not the ability. Gryffindor probably also same deal, but he's likely going to go "ew jocks, lol sportsball." He'd probably be insufferable in Ravenclaw. Slytherin would probably be the best option as he'd become a useless piece of self-congratulating wank, playing silly buggers with Draco Malfoy etc. until Voldemort showed up and enslaved him or whatever. He will probably go to Gryffindor because that's how the original book went though.
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# ? Apr 17, 2015 05:28 |
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Chapter 10: Self Awareness, Part II Part 5 quote:
That’s a pretty good summation of Eliezarry’s character. Just stuff him in Slytherin already, Mr Hat. All the kids with surnames “Q---“ to “Z---“ are still waiting to be Sorted. quote:
Again with the bragging about “Enlightenment culture”. Off all the off-putting things about this story, this may be one of the most offensive for its combination of racism, elitism and general smugness. quote:
The other students and the faculty are all possessed of the patience of saints. I would have expected Snape at least to start grumbling about how long Harry is taking to be sorted.
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# ? Apr 17, 2015 05:40 |