And new friends, like Hermione Granger, and Draco Malfoy, and Professor Quirrell. Then came the Hogwarts letter, introducing strange new opportunities to exploit. Petunia Evans married a biochemist, and Harry Potter grew up in a house filled to the brim with books, reading science and science fiction. So I started reading it right there in breaks between conference sessions. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I first heard about MoR when I attended Open Source Bridge, and it seemed like every panel I went to managed to work in a reference to this story. He wants to discover the laws of magic and become a god.ĭRACO MALFOY is exactly what you would expect an eleven-year-old boy to be like if Darth Vader were his doting father.ĭUMBLEDORE is either insane, or playing some vastly deeper game which involved setting fire to a chicken.ĭEPUTY HEADMISTRESS MINERVA MCGONAGALL needs to go off somewhere private and scream for a while. He's read Godel, Escher, Bach and Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases and volume one of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Summary of the chapter- McGonagall visits and does some magic, Harry is convinced magic is real, and they are off to go shop for Harrys books. He once bit a math teacher who didn't know what a logarithm was. HARRY JAMES POTTER-EVANS-VERRES grew up in a house filled to the brim with books.
I suggest starting with the Sequence on How to Actually Change Your Mind. If you want to know everything Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres knows and then some, read the Sequences. Something, somewhere, somewhen, must have happened differently. My pen name derives from the website Less Wrong, a collaborative blog devoted to improving the art of human rationality.
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