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Added Space posted:Not impossible. There could still be things like duplication errors that could 'break' one copy of the wizard gene. The rate would be fairly low but still detectable over a wizarding population in the tens or hundreds of thousands. Eh. If you're saying the random mutation rate of an individual gene is fairly low you mean insignificantly tiny I would agree with you. Something on the order of 1/10,000 or so. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2836558/ The likelier explanation is that squibs are nearly all illegitimate bastards. Rowling wrote a children's book, so 40 students/year for all of the UK causes all sorts of problems. But to your observation... ~10 muggleborns out of a population of 700,000 births a year is impossibly low. That recessive gene should be extinct within generations without something wonky going on, or a whole bunch of wizards are not getting hogwarts letters like they should.
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Dienes posted:Hell, wasn't a squib being able to see dementors that muggles couldn't critical to Harry's defense at the start of book 5? SQUIBS I have been asked all sorts of questions about Squibs since I first introduced the concept in ‘Chamber of Secrets’. A Squib is almost the opposite of a Muggle-born wizard: he or she is a non-magical person born to at least one magical parent. Squibs are rare; magic is a dominant and resilient gene. Squibs would not be able to attend Hogwarts as students. They are often doomed to a rather sad kind of half-life (yes, you should be feeling sorry for Filch), as their parentage often means that they will be exposed to, if not immersed in, the wizarding community, but can never truly join it. Sometimes they find a way to fit in; Filch has carved himself a niche at Hogwarts and Arabella Figg operates as Dumbledore’s liaison between the magical and Muggle worlds. Neither of these characters can perform magic (Filch’s Kwikspell course never worked), but they still function within the wizarding world because they have access to certain magical objects and creatures that can help them (Arabella Figg does a roaring trade in cross-bred cats and Kneazles, and if you don‘t know what a Kneazle is yet, shame on you). Incidentally, Arabella Figg never saw the Dementors that attacked Harry and Dudley, but she had enough magical knowledge to identify correctly the sensations they created in the alleyway.
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i81icu812 posted:
A longer discussion about how HP genetics could plausibly work from nearly a year ago!
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The Shortest Path posted:It's already been established that this author is a mild racist, I'm not going to flip out every time he says something a little stupid. I mean isn't pointing out and mocking the stupid the whole point of this? Otherwise reading and summarizing hundreds of thousands of words for its plot seems incredibly painful The author couldn't be bother to reread this dreck once he finished writing it to edit it, so why should you bother to read it seriously?
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i found yuds authors notes archived yud's authors notes posted:Author's Notes for Ch. 27, 'Empathy': Included mostly because I found this funny. Yud WAS an obnoxious CTY kid.
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Xander77 posted:I think this thread needs a constant "how thing actually works IRL vs how Yudkowsky thinks it works" section. Specifically one for the bullying theme, which is wrong on... I don't even know how many levels, but also in general. There's a post tracking all science stuff that's updated through chapter 14. Please feel free to contribute, the current pace is hard to keep up with. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3702281&pagenumber=32&perpage=40#post449678916 i81icu812 fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Jan 9, 2017 |
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Qwertycoatl posted:Of course, Harry's super transfiguration power works fine with his pop-sci understanding of physics. No need to actually put in the effort learning how to solve the equations (or even to know what the equations are). I feel compelled to point out that a normal understanding of physics would suggest the molecular mismatches in the partially transfigured object would cause something very weird to happen at the interface between the two materials. Something between the item falling apart and the item exploding due to the steric mismatches, depending on exactly how transfiguration works and what the materials are. Of course this is all foreshadowing for how yud's new superpower will defeat voldemort im sure.
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ewe2 posted:I must say I'm impressed with all your persistence in reading this tripe. I don't remember reading it back in the day although I remember the Basilisk, but I gave it a go today and I've gotten through about halfway and it's just classic fanfic Mary Sue garbage. Literally a child acting like an adult so he can own another author's characters with SCIENCE, it practically screams I'm smart! I just didn't get the piece of paper!. TBH I find the Ender's Game explanation a good cover for just fantasising his superiority. I do think he's read more Harry Potter than people suppose, not so much plot but characterization. He seems to have taken on Harry's anger as his own but channelled it a different way. There's something clinical going on here. Dude doesn't have the piece of paper. Didn't even get a HS diploma.
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Night10194 posted:It did this exactly once but it likes to say it has that thing, yes. Eh, its been more than once. It's just that their overall success rate is abysmal.
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