Beneath the moonlight glints a tiny fragment of silver, a fraction of a line…
(black robes, falling)
…blood spills out in litres, and someone screams a word.
Next episode we’ll be covering chapters 116, 117 and 118!
Original chapters, written by Eliezer Yudkowsky, can be read here and the audiobook chapters, recorded by Eneasz Brodski, can be found earlier in this podcast feed and on the website.
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Addressing the Tom Riddle being “broken” or just born inhuman debate.
This is actually explained in canon. Voldemort’s mother used love potions to rape Tom Sr. and conceived a child. Being conceived this way disables the baby from ever feeling love.
This is why love ends up being the power he knows not.
Brian is not very clever and is so extremely insecure about it that he spent most of these last 2 Episodes trying to justify his failure, rather than on puzzle solving. He was raised to value intelligence, not to use it.
I solved the puzzle alone half an hour after reading the chapter. But I spent years thinking of combat applications of partial transfiguration. OTOH Harry probably spent more time thinking about it, because it’s his full time job, where full time means thirty hour days.
Brian smelled an attack on his intellectual reputation and went into full defensive mode against that, rather than thinking about the problem. That, Brian is what valuing hierarchies gets you. You fail, because winning isn’t your goal, defending your status is. Rationality isn’t about showing people you’re the smartest, that’s all you projecting. Rationality is about owning up to your shortcomings and trying to do something about them.
Harry overcame Voldemort’s misanthropy and learned to be less of a dick. Learned to value other’s contributions and opinions and it manifested in treating them with respect. He also learned to use the Methods of Rationality, rather than just knowing the theory
I’m sorry, but you didn’t.
And can you stop interrupting Steven all the time?