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shminux comments on [FINAL CHAPTER] Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 122 - Less Wrong
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It seems that the problem with Tom "Voldemort" Riddle is that, although he was ambitious, he had no ambition. He was Sorted into Slytherin, and was driven by fear and cleverness to grasp at any opportunity for advancement which he could imagine. But there was no great ambition that he was driven to accomplish - at best he could grasp his way upward into the role of a hero, or a Dark Lord, or into personal immortality, or some other position of merely personal success, never breaking the bounds of his own lonely existence.
True ambition was the power that he knew not, and his downfall.
Not sure what definition of ambition you are using but
seems to fit pretty well.
I think he's referring to the definition of ambition Quirrel uses in Chapter 70:
I guess it depends on what one finds interesting. Clearly QQ/LV found taking over Magical Britain interesting enough.
The claim is that he found being Lord Voldemort interesting, but he didn't find taking over Magical Britain interesting.
Yes - but achieve what?
He just... wants immortality. And then... that's it. No real idea of what he wants to do with it.