[Link] Some notes on Rationality in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
post by mstevens · 2012-06-12T12:44:05.494Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 6 commentshttp://www.etla.org/hpmor_notes.html
This is an ongoing project of mine, although I haven't worked on it in a while. I've been trying to extract the references to Rationality - the Methods of Rationality from HPMoR. It also ended up having a few quotes that seemed interesting about how the story's going. I've linked references where I could find them.
I've only got as far as Chapter 40. Any extra submissions welcome.
At least one person - User:DavidGerard suggested it deserved being posted as a discussion link.
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comment by orthonormal · 2012-06-13T15:15:50.699Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Thanks for doing this!
I was hoping that you'd also include references for the experiments that Harry mentions offhand, like this one from Chapter 7:
(one experiment had shown that an unconditional gift of $5 was twice as effective as a conditional offer of $50 in getting people to fill out surveys)
I realize that would be a substantial amount of work, but it would be awesome.
Replies from: Tesseract, mstevens↑ comment by Tesseract · 2012-06-16T17:15:10.277Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
This particular reference is from James & Bolstein, 1992, and Eliezer gets it from Influence, Science and Practice. It's on chapter 2, page 26 in the fifth edition.
Replies from: orthonormal↑ comment by orthonormal · 2012-06-17T20:50:06.595Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Thanks!
comment by [deleted] · 2012-06-12T21:49:04.716Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
You may want to cross-post this to http://reddit.com/r/hpmor
Replies from: BlazeOrangeDeer↑ comment by BlazeOrangeDeer · 2012-06-13T06:16:58.945Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Definitely. There was a request a few days ago for a better catalog of information about the topics Harry references.