- With respect, Professor McGonagall, I'm not quite sure you understand what I'm trying to do here.
- With respect, Mr. Potter, I'm quite sure I don't. Unless - this is a guess, mind - you're trying to take over the world?
- No! I mean yes - well, NO!
- I think i should perhaps be alarmed that you have trouble answering the question.
He wanted to write someone and demand a refund on his dark side which clearly ought to have irresistible magical power but had turned out to be defective.
Eliezer YudkowskyYou couldn't changed history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the FIRST time around.
This whole business with seeking Slytherin's secrets... seemed an awful lot like the sort of thing where, years later, you would look back and say, 'And THAT was where it all started to go wrong.'
And he would wish desperately for the ability to fall back through time and make a different choice.
Wish granted. Now what?
Tags: decisions dark-side time-travel
To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.
Eliezer YudkowskyTags: science ignorance mystery
He really really really shouldn't have done that. Amazing how much more obvious that became one second after it was too late.
Eliezer YudkowskyTags: too-late wrong-choice
I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!
Eliezer YudkowskyTags: smart hard-work lazy shortcuts
In what weird alternative universe would that girl NOT be Sorted into Ravenclaw? If Hermione Granger didn't go to Ravenclaw then there was no good reason for Ravenclaw House to exist.
Eliezer YudkowskyI don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.
Eliezer YudkowskyTags: universe sense dark-side organisation rule-the-world
Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules.
Eliezer YudkowskyThere were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.
Eliezer YudkowskyTags: science question answer mysterious
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