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He wants to discover the laws of magic and become a god. And despite what everyone who's met him seems to fear, he doesn't want to become the next Dark Lord. He's read Godel, Escher, Bach and Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases and volume one of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. He once bit a math teacher who didn't know what a logarithm was. HARRY JAMES POTTER-EVANS-VERRES grew up in a house filled to the brim with books. PETUNIA EVANS married Michael Verres, a Professor of Biochemistry at Oxford. “Something, somewhere, somewhen, must have happened differently.

― Eliezer Yudkowsky, quote from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy and there's a lot of people out there telling lies.” Every rule of rationality that tells you how to find the truth, there's someone out there who needs you to believe the opposite. A lot of common wisdom like that isn't just mistaken, it's anti-epistemology, it's systematically wrong. Or truth doesn't exist and there's no such thing as objective reality. Or a good and virtuous person should believe as strongly as they can, no matter what the evidence says. Like, the experimental method is just for merely scientific kinds of medicine, not amazing alternative medicine like theirs. So if someone wants to go on defending the lie, they've got to get you to disbelieve in the experimental method.

Like, someone is selling you some kind of alternative medicine that doesn't work, and any double-blind experimental study will confirm that it doesn't work. And if you kept on lying, and you kept on trying to cover it up, sooner or later you'd even have to start lying about the general laws of thought. You've got to tell more lies to cover them up, lie about every fact that's connected to the first lie.

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