agamemnonymous
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 4D Salmon 2 hours ago:
Sounds like a twist on an Aboleth
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 10 hours ago:
I mean if you actually read it, basically every point you made except transfiguration is addressed in the conversation Harry has with a goblin at Gringott’s. And transfiguration is addressed later in the book, it’s actually a really crucial plot point. Long story short, no, you can’t just summon more without the philosopher’s stone, which is exceedingly rare.
The angle taken, that from currency to time turners the setting is poorly constructed, is valid. Incidentally, HPMOR Harry suffers due to his “I’m so much smarter than everyone” hubris multiple times throughout the story. Once the story really gets going, Yudkowsky doesn’t really shy away from pointing out when Harry’s absolutist rationalism comes across as childish, impractical, or straight up unethical.
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 12 hours ago:
The whole basis of that scheme was the different relative exchange rates in the muggle and wizard world. There are I think 17 silver sickles to 1 gold galleon, but I’m the muggle world gold is more like 50 times the value of silver. The plan was to take a galleon to the muggle world, melt them down and sell the gold, use the proceeds to buy silver, bring that silver back to the wizard world and have it minted into 50 sickles, and trade those sickles for about 3 galleons.
Like many scenes in HPMOR the author is mostly just roasting Rowling for lazy world building. He didn’t have to build a world where everyone else was stupid, the point is that Rowling’s wizarding world already fulfilled that requirement.
- Comment on shrooms 2 days ago:
Yeah shrooms are way more likely to give you the ability to think through legitimate problems than generate spontaneous bad ideas. Still though, give it some thought when you come down.
- Comment on Doctor Debates 2 days ago:
Also the real big ones frequently take the back door. Training can rearrange the corridor.
- Comment on Feels like something this community would like to know 3 days ago:
Been-a-while On-the-pot
- Comment on Hell yeah bröther 4 days ago:
His logo slaps
- Comment on Time is money friend 4 days ago:
Oh for sure, but not free
- Comment on Time is money friend 4 days ago:
Uh, internet costs money
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 4 days ago:
Disco Elysium was so stress free for me, I didn’t really think the day counter did anything.
It didn’t bother me at all, because I felt like I did about everything I could every day.
- Comment on Everybody poops 5 days ago:
Everybody poops, and if they don’t they’re an android
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It is in the ways that matter here. “Own” here refers to being independent from your parents specifically, not property ownership.
- Comment on Happy Birthday John Turkey 1 week ago:
I think the joke is that 110.000 years is very precise, but that precision isn’t very useful when you only identify where that measurement zeroes as vaguely as “sometime this week”.
- Comment on Arts & STEM 1 week ago:
Guess biology isn’t STEM then, sorry.
But I’m all seriousness, calculus (and by extension differential equations) is super common in bio. Reaction rates, stable population sizes, micro and macro. I’d be surprised if you never came across it.
- Comment on Arts & STEM 1 week ago:
My subjective interpretation of STEM is “degrees you need to know calculus for”. They’re all math heavy, with precise answers. While the arts are certainly important, I just don’t see how they fit that motif. What is this supposed to accomplish?
- Comment on It is 1 week ago:
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 1 week ago:
Yes, during which various consequences for the previous 4 years transpired. The effects of his first term rippled on for years. Several ongoing court cases against him for actions during his first term ran long enough to be dismissed because he got elected the second time.
Also did you just not attempt to learn absolutely anything about the time you were away?
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 1 week ago:
How does that have acting to do with what I said? What I said was
In any ethical framework, the trolley problem presents you with the conflicting guilts of action and inaction. The ethical frameworks don’t do anything but justify whichever guilt you choose.
When did I say there was a right answer?
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 1 week ago:
Then you had 5 years to witness the fallout from 2019 to 2024.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 1 week ago:
What are you talking about? In any ethical framework, the trolley problem presents you with the conflicting guilts of action and infection. The ethical frameworks don’t do anything but justify whichever guilt you choose.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 1 week ago:
I don’t watch TV either. Did you have Internet?
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 1 week ago:
Uh, dude’s been a known liar for decades. He made himself known well before 2016, even more so for the next 4 years. We all said this was going to happen, no one else is surprised. You were warned.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 1 week ago:
Has it ever crossed anyone’s mind, that those of that didn’t vote, was usually because we didn’t approve of either candidate?
Christ, do they not teach the trolley problem anymore?
“Has it ever crossed anyone’s mind that I didn’t want the 5 guys on the main track or the 1 guy on the side track to die?”
Duh. That’s the point. You act and feel guilty about a small bad thing, or do nothing and feel guilty and a big bad thing. We got the big bad ending, feel guilty.
- Comment on Every day I'm levelin 2 weeks ago:
Are you feeling it now?
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 2 weeks ago:
This is exactly why I think “transgender” does more harm than good and I’ll die on this hill. What’s the point? The people who are going to accept the way you express yourself aren’t going to care if it conforms to gender stereotypes, and the people who aren’t won’t suddenly change their minds if it does.
All it does is reinforce the very same stereotypes that gave you gender dysphoria in the first place. It’s saying that gender norms are valid, you just got assigned the wrong ones. Live your truth, express yourself how you want, alter your body however you want, but don’t validate oppressive stereotypes in the process.
- Comment on Protip: 2 weeks ago:
Asphalt is hot but as long as you keep moving, and you’ve built up some callouses, it’s not that bad. I always kept to the grass on the side when I could.
- Comment on Protip: 2 weeks ago:
Once upon a time I was a barefoot hippie. If you extrapolate flip-flops down to their Platonic ideal, you can arrive at something you can fold up into your back pocket.
- Comment on Table service 2 weeks ago:
Two minutes or two bites, but realistically when you can get to it. You wanna make sure they got everything they ordered, and it’s not burnt or undercooked or anything. The alternative is having to wait to get something fixed if it’s messed up. Source: 7 years a server.
- Comment on Mornings got me like... 2 weeks ago:
A vanilla soy latte is really just a 3 bean soup.
