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You're eleven years old, Mr. Potter!" she said in a harsh whisper.
"And therefore subhuman. Sorry ... for a moment there, I forgot.
"And therefore subhuman. Sorry ... for a moment there, I forgot.
Also Harry was in love. It would be a three-way wedding: him, the Time-Turner, and Professor Quirrell.
By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
You cannot obtain more truth for a fixed proposition by arguing it. To improve our beliefs, we must necessarily change our beliefs.
If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.
I am going to tear apart your pathetic little magical remnant of the Dark Ages into pieces smaller than its constituent atoms.
Clever kids in Ravenclaw, evil kids in Slytherin, wannabe heroes in Gryffindor, and everyone who does the actual work in Hufflepuff.
The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.
A single Lie That Must Be Protected can block someone's progress into advanced rationality. No, it's not harmless fun.
If what you believe doesn't depend om what you see, you've been blinded as effectively as by poking out your eyeballs.
Apparently people who were in books actually sounded like a book when they talked. This was quite the surprising discovery.
Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.
Slowly, elaborately, Akon's head dropped to the table with a dull thud. Why couldn't we have been alone in the universe?
Hey, Draco, you know what I bet is even better for becoming friends than exchanging secrets? Committing murder.
No rescuer hath the rescuer, Godric Gryffindor had written. No Lord hath the champion, no mother and no father, only nothingness above.
I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access.
When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.
You couldn't leave your home planet while it still contained a place like Azkaban.
You had to stay and fight.
You had to stay and fight.
To die was not to leave the world, not to escape somewhere else; it was the simultaneous change of every piece of yourself into nothing.
There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model.
A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again.
You need one whole hell of a lot of rationality before it does anything but lead you into new and interesting mistakes.
I've lived the lives of all the characters in all my books, and all their mighty wisdom thunders in my head.
After all, if you had the complete decision process, you could run it as an AI, and I'd be coding it up right now.
You see, Miss Granger, people do not grow up because of time, people grow up when they are placed in grownup situations.
Hermione's eyes lit up with a terrible light of helpfulness and something in the back of Harry's brain screamed in desperate humiliation.
Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.
My successes already accomplished have mostly been taking existing science and getting people to apply it in their everyday lives.
When the basic problem is your ignorance, clever strategies for bypassing your ignorance lead to shooting yourself in the foot.
When you walk past a bookshop you haven't visited before, you have to go in and look around. That's the family rule.
It was a rare brain that could feel strongly about anything, if it wasn't close in space, close in time, near at hand, within easy reach ...
If science is a religion, it is the religion that heals the sick and reveals the secrets of the stars.
Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.
I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?
There's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness ...
The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
(...) Where are you trying to go?"
Harry hesitated. "I'm not really sure," he said.
"Then perhaps you are already there.
Harry hesitated. "I'm not really sure," he said.
"Then perhaps you are already there.
He really really really shouldn't have done that. Amazing how much more obvious that became one second after it was too late.
Look, I don't have enough time to turn everyone away from the Dark Side and I've got to ask where the Light can gain the most advantage the fastest -
I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow was the Final Dawn, the last sunrise before the Earth and Sun are reshaped into computing elements.
When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.
Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.