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How can I help research Friendly AI?
avichapman6y60

Thanks for your great story. I particularly enjoyed 'Swimming Upstream'.

I'm much earlier in my journey and the milestones are probably different than yours. In Australia, a PhD is 3 years and I don't know if you get much choice on committee selection. As it happens, I haven't even started it yet as I am currently doing an Honours research project to prove my research bona fides.

My first challenge is to find a way to pay for my PhD. In Australia, you can get a salary to do a PhD, but it is 1/4 of my current salary and I have kids to feed. I have a plan to convince my company to pay for my PhD and a backup plan involving continuous part-time research to make a name and cover some important background over the next five years until my children are grown.

This year, my research is in Computer Vision. Next year if I can start my PhD, it will be in real--time scene interpretation. If I don't start my PhD, I will have more freedom to choose my topic - so I want to make it a topic that serves my long-term interests.

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[FINAL CHAPTER] Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 122
avichapman10y120

Wow. I see now what EY meant when he said it wasn't fair to criticize HPMOR as sexist before it was done. I finished reading the last chapter with the feeling that this was actually an origin story for Hermione.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 119
avichapman10y50

Brin seems to equate 'rational' with 'non-violent'. They're not always the same thing.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 119
avichapman10y00

Why is Harry special? His sleep cycle? Anybody can use a time turner.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 119
avichapman10y110

In the text, they made it clear that the vow was based on the meaning of the words and not the words itself. V said that it was important that everyone understood the meaning.

Harry would not consider star lifting or terraforming or the creation of a virtual world at the expense of the actual one to be 'destroying the world'. He would considering 'destroying the world' to mean 'the ending of all life' or somesuch.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 116
avichapman10y30

Did Harry time-turn the day Hermione died, and, if so, what did he do?

Yes. When he went into the room with Hermione's body, he turned the time turner and transfigured her body into a ring while also transfiguring something else (presumably something very small) into a copy of Hermione's body. He then hid from his past self and left the room just after his past self entered. After the transfiguration wore off, the 'body' dissapeared.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 116
avichapman10y20

In canon, the map was made by Harry's dad and his three friends.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 116
avichapman10y90

QuirrelMort's wand is in Quirrel's hand.

Harry went to where Quirrell lay, and straightened out the body as best he could, and put Quirrell's wand into his hand.

Voldemorts wand is the one that Harry took.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 116
avichapman10y100

After rereading, I beleive that Mr White is Lucius Malfoy. Not only is the name an allusion to his hair, he is said to be less useful than he was in the past due to the fact that V will soon rule openly. In the past Lucius was V's puppet in the Wizengamot.

Mr Write then proceeds to sacrifice most of his magic to bind Harry Potter. I suppose with him dead, this doesn't matter.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 114 + chapter 115
avichapman10y00

I remember that part too. I had thought that they had searched all of Harry's things. Upon re-reading the relevant part of Chapter 94, I now realise that they only searched his trunk and mokeskin pouch. If he left it in his bed it would have escaped detection.

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