We're currently translating chapter 11 into German. It's going along fine, but > “PICKLED STEWBERRIES!” is still puzzling us. No dictionary entries, no HPMoR-unrelated search hits, nothing… Is this some kind of dadaist joke by Eliezer? Or are we missing something?
This article poses questions on the distinction between Tool AGI and Agent AGI, which was described very concisely by Holden Karnofsky in his recent Thoughts on the Singularity Institute post: > In short, Google Maps is not an agent, taking actions in order to maximize a utility parameter. It is...
How about “Girl-Whose-Name-Contains-Too-Many-Hyphens”?
I'm not sure what you mean about the basilisk. Possible I'm not remembering.
I think, CAE_Jones refers to Hermione being the one who finds out that Slytherin’s monster (in book 2) is a basilisk.
Magic doesn’t think of “information” like you do. Magic doesn’t work the way you expect it to work. If you suggest that it should, Magic will just look at you queerly, shrug its shoulders and continue to work the way wizards expect it to work. It’s "Oogely boogely!" all over again.
The Stone would make his transfiguration permanent and thus presumably render them immune to Finite Incantatem. If he doesn’t use the Stone (e.g. in the case of Voldemort, which you are probably referring to), I don’t know of any conventional way to proof against F.I. (Knowing Harry, I’m sure he’d be able to think of some rather unconventional ideas if he sets his mind on it.)
It was briefly noted in chapter 111:
The Dark Lord reached into his robes, took out a Knut, and flipped it to her. "Klaudia Alicja Tabor, I command you thus. Take this Knut to the spell circle I showed you beneath the Quidditch stands and put it in the center. Then Obliviate yourself of the last six hours."
"Yes, lord," the witch said, bowing to him, and went on her way.
"I thought -" Harry said. "I thought you needed the Stone to -"
The Dark Lord was still smiling, he had never stopped smiling. "I did not say that part in Parseltongue, child. All I said in Parseltongue was that I had set events in motion to kill students, events that I would stop if I obtained the Stone. […]”
So Dumbledore is not trapped but simply takes a well-deserved vacation in Atlantis!
Not necessarily. For all we know, we might not need to simulate a human brain on an atomic level to get accurate results. Simulating a brain on a neuron level might be sufficient.
Actually killing him (including his horcrux backup system, I assume?) would obliterate the LV-that-is and any possible LV-that-could-be. Harry obliterated the LV-that-is, but can still restore him to full health and allow him to become any one of the LV-that-could-be.
It’s a bit like taking a life but starting a new life, too.
And we'll make sure that Professor Quirrell's teachings never die out of Hogwarts.
Thus, Harry’s original christmas wish is at least partially fulfilled, despite PQ’s objections:
"And Mr. Potter wishes for -"
There was a pause as Professor Quirrell looked at the parchment.
Then, without any change of expression on Professor Quirrell's face, the sheet of parchment burst into flames, and burned with a brief, intense fire that left only drifting black dust sprinkling down from his hand.
"Please confine yourself to the possible, Mr. Potter," said Professor Quirrell, sounding very dry indeed.
(chapter 34)
"So what did you wish the first time?" said Draco.
[…]
"It wasn't really all that interesting," Harry said with obviously artificial lightness. "Just, I wish Professor Quirrell would teach Battle Magic again next year."
(chapter 35)
We're currently translating chapter 11 into German. It's going along fine, but
“PICKLED STEWBERRIES!”
is still puzzling us. No dictionary entries, no HPMoR-unrelated search hits, nothing…
Is this some kind of dadaist joke by Eliezer? Or are we missing something?
This article poses questions on the distinction between Tool AGI and Agent AGI, which was described very concisely by Holden Karnofsky in his recent Thoughts on the Singularity Institute post:
In short, Google Maps is not an agent, taking actions in order to maximize a utility parameter. It is a tool, generating information and then displaying it in a user-friendly manner for me to consider, use and export or discard as I wish.
For me, this instantly raised one question: What if a Tool AGI becomes/is self-aware (which, for the purposes of this post, I define as “able to have goals that are distinct from the goals of the outside world”) and starts manipulating its results in a... (read 170 more words →)
Although in canon, Lucius (and the Malfoy family) falling into Voldemort’s disgrace was caused by several events which did not happen in HPMoR, including giving away one of Voldemort’s horcruxes (the diary in book 2), failing to steal the prophecy from a handful of teenagers (book 5) and Draco’s failure to kill Dumbledore (book 6).
In HPMoR, Lucius did not fail Voldemort that often.