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Want more? Brainstorm more spells in the comments and I'll (likely) do more of these!

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I love this. FYI the minimal change that makes the image of the Empirio spell valid is to write P(B) = P(B|A) x P(A).

I realize I'm a couple weeks behind and nobody might read this, but this is false (e.g., if I flip two fair + independent coins and A = "first coin is heads" and B = "second coin is heads", P(B) = 1/2, but P(B|A) x P(A) = (1/2)x(1/2) = 1/4). I think what you mean is P(A and B) = P(B|A) x P(A).

(unless I'm missing some context and we are assuming B is a subset of A, but if so I'm not sure why we are assuming that)

[-]Elo20

nobody might read this Don't worry. People read comments.

Any chance you'd like to do some cover/chapter art for Murphy's Quest?

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Sure! I just read it today, and I quite liked it! I'm a little unsure about timelines, but PM on Messenger and we can figure something out?

These are great and I like the naming.

Genre savviness.

Deliberate practice.

Scope sensitivity/napkinmath/shut up and multiply.

Checklists!

Something around an argument that proves too much, but this could be massaged into a more atomic concept maybe. (falsifiability? rent collection?)

A dispell for isolated demands for rigor.

and of course: Summon Sapience!

A spell for changing your own mind to reflect the world. Maybe "locus alba" or "ire foras"?

Now I'm curious about Dark Side Epistemology spells...

Movus Goalpostia!

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