Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Eliezer Yudkowsky
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#2hah! this seems like a good read so far and promises to be great based on the chapter list.
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#3The intro is right; it really kicks in from Ch5 onwards.
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#4You turned into a cat! A SMALL cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! (Chapter 2)
Energy? I'd rather call it a violation of conservation of mass.
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#5You turned into a cat! A SMALL cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! (Chapter 2) Energy? I'd rather call it a violation of conservation of mass.
It was a very, very dense cat.
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#6This is wonderful. Every chapter, I find myself exclaiming, Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, basking in how awesome this is. Chapter 17 alone would have made the first 16 chapters worth it, if they were not all already worth it.
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#7hah! this seems like a good read so far and promises to be great based on the chapter list.
It is pretty good so far :) (not that I'm a picky reader)...
It reminds me of an alternate Harry Potter that was available around the Internet about the time book 5 was about to be released... it was pretty cool (I think I actually liked it more than the original). I realized that it was not the original a bit into it, but I still kept on reading. I'll look it up (don't have it here), but I'm not sure who was the author (of if it could be discovered).
I guess what I can take from it is that I don't demand too much quality from my fanfiction :P (and I'm amazed at what can fans do :) )
Re: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Eliezer Yudkowsky
#8You turned into a cat! A SMALL cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! (Chapter 2) Energy? I'd rather call it a violation of conservation of mass.
Mass isn't conserved. The sun operates by destroying matter, as do atom bombs. Energy, which matter is a form of, is conserved. The violation isn't the turning into a cat, it's the lack of a subsequent mushroom cloud.
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#9You turned into a cat! A SMALL cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! (Chapter 2) Energy? I'd rather call it a violation of conservation of mass.
Mass isn't conserved. The sun operates by destroying matter, as do atom bombs. Energy, which matter is a form of, is conserved. The violation isn't the turning into a cat, it's the lack of a subsequent mushroom cloud.
Well... To be fair, the added matter could be shifted into a higher dimension and detached from the cat. You would then see a small cat with the expected mass of a small cat.
All you need is sufficiently advanced technology.
Re: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Eliezer Yudkowsky
#10You bastard Eliezer! You've just wasted 4 hours of my life, just at the time when I have a rather busy schedule! No doubt this is all part of your evil plan to become a rich science fiction author, then use your money to build a self-improving AI that will conquer^H optimise the universe.