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How To Actually Change Your Mind eBook (In Order)
QuicklyStarfish13y00

Sorry for the late reply but the question just occurred to me: is this publication likely to include the current sequence, "Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 for Beginners"? (I don't know how long the sequence will be, so I'm not sure if there's time.)

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How To Actually Change Your Mind eBook (In Order)
QuicklyStarfish13y20

Is there any public timeframe for when these will be released, even an approximate one?

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[META] Alternatives to rot13 and karma sinks
QuicklyStarfish13y60

I also thought linked rot13 would be nice, and put up a page, at rot13.ca, to do so conveniently:

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Gurer'f n pbclnoyr znexqbja yvax orybj. Rnpu cnentencu'f nyg-grkg vf vgf qrpbqrq inyhr. Zhygvcyr yvarf be fcrpvny punenpgref fubhyq or unaqyrq cebcreyl.

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Identity Isn't In Specific Atoms
QuicklyStarfish13y00

Before when I was still contemplating whether consciousness had a non-physical component, well before I discovered coherent philosophy or rationalism, I had a similar "soul swap world" idea. It eventually let me discard the idea of a soul, but I still favoured some kind of non-personal consciousness. This idea eventually became that there was a "consciousness field" permeating space which produced the phenomenon, through interaction with our brains through a physical yet unknown mechanism. I thought it some very subtle physical effect we hadn't noticed yet, not really supernatural.

It was progress.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 13, chapter 81
QuicklyStarfish13y240

That's an interesting possibility, but I favour the interpretation that this is the source of dementors:

Even so, the most terrible ritual known to me demands only a rope which has hanged a man and a sword which has slain a woman; and that for a ritual which promised to summon Death itself - though what is truly meant by that I do not know and do not care to discover, since it was also said that the counterspell to dismiss Death had been lost.

  • Quirrell, Chapter 74

It fits very nicely. Dementors (Death) were unkillable (undismissable) because the "true" patronus charm (counterspell) had been lost.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 13, chapter 81
QuicklyStarfish13y50

Urg... you now have me imagining what happens if polyjuice wears off someone eight-months pregnant.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 11
QuicklyStarfish13y70

Regarding the Cloak, one possibility is that Harry could duplicate it using the Time Turner. (Harry[1] goes back in time, equips himself with Cloak[1], sneaks up to Harry[2] and take Cloak[2] from his pouch. He could use both cloaks to perform an impossible rescue, then return Cloak[2] to Harry[2]'s pouch.)

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 10
QuicklyStarfish13y30

Can somebody dereference "Heaven's Feel arc" for those of us who aren't familiar with it?

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