The Flynn Effect is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1/3 IQ point per year. So unless your girlfriend is 120 years younger than your grandmother...
Also the Flynn Effect is observed in similar magnitudes in men and women. IQyou/IQyourgirlfriend is predicted to be the same as IQgrandpa/IQgrandma, at least the part of that ratio attributable to the Flynn effect.
He didn't actually mention the Flynn effect in the above post.
How many points does it take?
Last I checked it was something like 10.
You thought his username gave you over 13 bits of evidence?
The username contains more than 13 bits of information (being 14 characters long) so this might not be too unreasonable.
Perhaps Harry was wrapped in the invisibility cloak when the AK hit him?
Seems like something Voldemort would've noticed.
This doesn't look as bad as it looks like it looks.
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I really want to see the context for this.
Politics is a zero sum game in which you spend 500 billion dollars to no avail except for forcing your opponent to spend 510 to win. Millions if people are already trying to win this zero sum game already. Might as well ask "why not just win the World Series of poker, then use that money to fund Miri?"
This is assuming you're trying to do politics yourself instead of just deciding who to support.
I suspect that one feature people want from this thread is that all top-level replies/questions are safe from downvoting, so maybe it's worth adding to the rules, if not to the code.
Personally I'm just going with the policy of upvoting every negative Karma question.
I think it's pretty clear that Harry doesn't have a good model of Dumbledore's beliefs at this point. Later on he figures out that:
Dumbledore really wasn't afraid of death. Dumbledore honestly, truly believed that death was the next great adventure. Believed it in his core, not just as convenient words used to suppress cognitive dissonance, not just pretending to be wise.
When does he say this?
I believe that animals have brains, different from human brains mostly only in intelligence. and am not a vegetarian.
Sure, but you can understand vegetarian, and a fair deal of humans are vegetarian. There isn't the slightest evidence of any wizard being vegetarian. If wizards actually believed animals had souls, not just brain, there would be more, not less, vegetarian wizards than vegetarian muggles.
Wizards probably think of muggles as having souls, and have been known in cannon to hunt them for sport.
Only a few wizards hunt muggle for the fun, the blood purist who actually believe that muggle don't have souls.
Slave masters definitely though of their slaves as having souls.
That's not really obvious. The Valladolid controversy is a clear example of the issue being actually disputed. And then again, the Hermiones opposed slavery. The Hermiones in HPMOR aren't vegetarian.
Hmm.. looks like the evidence I cited wasn't as strong as I thought.
What I mostly mean to suggest is that having a soul does not necessarily make a thing morally significant.
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My issue with commitment contracts is that I have no reason to believe they will do anything but make me miserable, and I don't have enough money to risk. If I precommit to pay $5 if I fail at a certain task, I have no reason to believe that at the end of the given time period, I won't be short 1% of my total wealth and worse off emotionally.
I find it interesting that you think there is no reason to believe that a financial incentive would change your behavior.