Siddhant Jain
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“You turned into a cat! A SMALL cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! That's not just an arbitrary rule, it's implied by the form of the quantum Hamiltonian! Rejecting it destroys unitarity and then you get FTL signalling! And cats are COMPLICATED! A human mind can't just visualise a whole cat's anatomy and, and all the cat biochemistry, and what about the neurology? How can you go on thinking using a cat-sized brain?”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“That's not interactive, there's no back-and-forth with the other player and how much fun is it to watch someone incredibly good at moving their eyes? And then whichever Seeker gets lucky swoops in and grabs the Snitch and makes everyone else's work moot. It's like someone took a real game and grafted on this pointless extra position so that you could be the Most Important Player without needing to really get involved or learn the rest of it. Who was the first Seeker, the King's idiot son who wanted to play Quidditch but couldn't understand the rules?" Actually, now that Harry thought about it, that seemed like a surprisingly good hypothesis. Put him on a broomstick and tell him to catch the shiny thing...”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“Clever kids in Ravenclaw, evil kids in Slytherin, wannabe heroes in Gryffindor, and everyone who does the actual work in Hufflepuff.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“...there's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness...”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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