Ritalin comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 19, chapter 88-89 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ritalin 01 July 2013 11:01:30AM 1 point [-]

Wow, there's really no escaping the Typical Mind Fallacy. I find it very hard to connect to what's going on in an opera.

As for Victory At All Costs, this isn't Star Trek or a shounen anime; the amount of willpower and smarts you put into things increases your base rate of success, but there are some tasks that are just plain too hard, and sometimes you're just unlucky and roll a Critical Fail.

Comment author: ikrase 01 July 2013 01:54:44PM 0 points [-]

Although I do tend to come out of cathartic tragic operas, plays, etc with a kind of transhumanist "look upon the tragedies I avert and despair" bent. But seeking, for example, how the Universe still manages to kill Gilda is a lot different from this sort of thing.

Comment author: ikrase 01 July 2013 01:37:58PM 0 points [-]

Of course. But that still is pretty close to Ardent Harry's actual resolve.