Hpmor Quotes

Someday," said the Boy-Who-Lived, "when the distant descendants of Homo sapiens are looking back over the history of the galaxy and wondering how it all went so wrong, they will conclude that the original mistake was when someone taught Hermione Granger how to read.

It wasn't cheating, but it was Science, which was almost as good.

Non est salvatori salvator, neque defensori dominus, nec pater nec mater, nihil supernum.

What happened to me personally is only anecdotal evidence," Harry explained. "It doesn't carry the same weight as a replicated, peer-reviewed journal article about a controlled study with random assignment, many subjects, large effect sizes and strong statistical significance.

It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you," Harry recited the proverb.

Harry's brain still felt broken. "He was trying to kill me." "Oh, for Merlin's sake - yes, he was trying to kill you. Get used to it. Only boring people never have that experience.

Because I still would've been surrounded by idiots, and I wouldn't have been able to kill them," Professor Quirrell said mildly. "Killing idiots is my great joy in life, and I'll thank you not to speak ill of it until you've tried it for yourself.

Minerva firmly believed that you only ought to worry about Time if you were a clock.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (HPMOR), a novel running to 650,000 words (substantially longer than War and Peace), is among the most widely read pieces of Harry Potter fan fiction on the internet. Yudkowsky started working on it in 2010, posting chapters online as he wrote them for the next five years.      Yudkowsky's Harry Potter is a wizard in training and a child prodigy with a set of interests and goals suspiciously similar to those of Yudkowsky himself: eliminating death is at the top of his list. The book has chapter titles like "Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis," "Bayes's Theorem," and "Personhood Theory." Yudkowsky's Potter is supposed to be eleven, but he talks much more like the adult Yudkowsky. And like Yudkowsky, he wants to save the world—his way. "World domination is such an ugly phrase," Yudkowsky's Potter says at one point. "I prefer to call it world optimisation.