Blueberry
22hr ago
This is fun:
If the magic trait depends on two dominant genes, than a Wizard could be AABB (to AaBb), a Squib would be AAbb (to aaBB) and a Muggle is aabb.
However, this leaves us in a very odd situation. This means that Draco and the rest of the blood purists are right!
At least in the weaker sense in that purebloods mating with muggleborn and muggles increases the risk of descendants being squibs.
Blood theory makes a stronger claim though in that pureblood wizards are superior in magical ability. This is more difficult to prove with Voldemort being super powerful but having a muggle as father or muggleborn Hermione Granger doing quite well. Magical ability could be polygenic in the sense that the magic allele is a switch on/off, but IQ and other mental traits influence its power.
Edit: Speaking of Voldemort: Parseltongue is hereditary and linked to the bloodline of Salazar Slytherin. So there are magic genes beside the active/inactive switch.
The US Department of Education just posted Malfoid slop:
"There's Magic in Learning"
https://x.com/usedgov/status/2115069815505203483
Or rather, there is Magic in Yearning, Make Romance Great Again, am I right? …
Two weeks ago @KingOfTheBailey had an excellent post about the trend:
https://www.themotte.org/post/3960/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/486219
The result has been a lot of chaotic glee that Harry Potter is up for recapture and reinterpretation. … The chuds are rediscovering fanfiction from first principles, using it to poke sticks in eyes or roll back some of the idiocy of the past few years, and they're doing a lot of it with AI. … It is extremely interesting to me that there seems to be very little goonbait in the Malfoid stuff I've seen,
I want to note three things two weeks later:
- The lack of explicit sex seems to hold
- I don't see explicitly an agenda pushed (the US government co-opting the meme and make it unpalatable for leftist demographics could change that), instead I see a collaborative goal to change as few things in the canon as possible and the pieces just kind of fall neatly into place. It is a male-brained analysis of a system (the HP canon) and what little screw to exchange in a running motor; for example if the plot point is still happening that Harry Potter is badly hurting Dracina with the Sectumsempra curse (plus the question if she keeps scars from that) is argued about emotional impact and character motivation, but not from making a larger point in the gender war.
Original:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=L5g-17uLO90
AI Anime versions:
Kind of sloppy but neat:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=g6jjXAASi_Q
Better animated, but very Korean:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4mkZ8jEYySo
- It is very visual. My stereotype is that teenage nerd girls write/read tons of fanfiction (literature), but teenage nerd boys watch lots of anime, so that makes sense? Beside written scenes there is a pipeline of (Asian) illustrations -> (Asian/Western) AI cinematics
For example this illustration of Dracina casting a peacock as patronum is striking:
https://x.com/CaboVT/status/2106491934818853274
And was then canonized in this AI Battle of Hogwarts scene:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y6tAajsc9PY
And then discussed how a (male) peacock can sort of make sense as a representation of Harry for Dracina.
Then there was first an illustration of Harry/Dracina fighting Voldemort together with the same wand:
https://x.com/Aurondarklord/status/2106975585507418609
My favorite thing about Malfoid is watching the internet collectively decide on, and then stick to, the canon of her alternate universe. Like at this point EVERYONE agrees that this "both of them holding one wand" visual is how they kill Voldemort. EVERY version of the final battle in her timeline uses it. It's a genuinely heartwarming exercise in organic, viral cooperation.
Which sparked this AI scene:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VgfNf79t3oo
I don't care it's AI, this shit is like finding diamonds in a coal mine.
What I love about this trend is that regardless of which path the story takes, the fandom unilaterally agrees that the final battle ends with Potter and Malfoid holding the wand together.
I don't care how cheesy or juvenile or klischee it is; narratively it just makes sense: Draco is the rightful owner of the Elder Wand, we have the redemption arc of Slytherin and Voldemort is defeated (again) by the power of love. Could this not be done with a male Draco? Why not a good old fashioned friendship? One argument I read was that women often see rivalry as sexual dominance (e.g. the gay romance in Heated Rivalry) and so Rowling couldn't work out an honorable defeat/submission of Draco to Harry. So a Harrys + Dracos male friendship would actually need a more extensive rewrite than a female tsundere Dracina being in love.
Anyway, now that the US government involved (Hello fellow kids!), doesn't that mean the ship is sailed and the trend run its course into being old and uncool?
Not necessary, I want to officially register my prediction that with the start of the HBO series (December 25, 2026 (Christmas Day)) AI is good enough (or will be good enough in coming years) to replace Draco scenes with reimagined Dracina scenes. There will be alternative Malfoid-episodes which can be torrented.
Blueberry
2d ago
woman doing manly industrial work while still looking pretty and feminine enough to be worth defending, but the Nazis don't.
I found this:
And this:
Pretty similar women worker propaganda.
Blueberry
2d ago
What is Mother of Learning and what makes it good? I skimmed the internet and it is about a young wizard on a wizard school (inspired by HP?)
Blueberry
5d ago
Though in real life women talk with women more about other women than about men
Blueberry
7d ago
Slavoj Zizek on receiving his N-Word Pass and solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zkvw6BUgU0I
Blueberry
12d ago
Yudkowsky is not impressed though:
https://x.com/alltheyud/status/2110853001749594363?s=46
This stage of progress is like: "We're gonna pry the panel off this machine and look inside. Whoops, our screwdriver just broke off in our hand. (Years later.) AWESOME NEWS THE SCREWDRIVER IS REPAIRED NOW."
Best to go one quote posts to see his replies to Anthropic researchers
Blueberry
13d ago
KillTony (I mean criticized by left media)
I sm bot familiar with it. It is a Podcast/YT show? Why is it criticized?
Reasoning from fiction about the real world is a fallacy (imaginary map vs real territory?), and science fiction says more about the time it was created as the depicted future. Old scifi imagined any household chores done by robots, but they couldn't imagine that the washing machine freed women from being housewives and the coming waves of feminism. In 60s StarTrek they couldn't get female commanding officers as women in the test viewership hated the bossy actress, in 90s Star Trek there were no gay people (not to mention transgender), and Picard was bald. In a real future with Star Trek like tech everyone will have fantastic hair and some otherkin/wolfkin will use transporter tech to degenerate themselves to furry-hybrids. And the holodeck itself is a can of worms...
Blueberry
21d ago
Someone on hacker news had for the last 20 years a specific problem in graph theory (Barnette's conjecture) and tried to understand the proof (and tried to translate it for non-math people) and was astonished that it used multiple esoteric "symbolic tricks borrowed from theoretical physics". He used Anthropics Fable to understand the OpenAI proof and first thought Fable was hallucinating techno-babble:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988654
Forgive me for posting LLM output but I find this darkly hilarious:
"it's a matrix-tree cancellation wearing Kasteleyn's planar signs, run as a Witten index over Penrose-lineage states, evaluated as a fugacity-zero loop gas in an infinitesimal magnetic field — and the reason it reads like physics is that every one of those tools was built for partition functions"
I thought this was pure slop when I read it but there are some clear analogues in these other areas of physics, really neat computational tricks, and a very interesting paper by Penrose calculating Tait colorings I never knew about previously
So at least this proof (and at least to some guy on hn) this proof were not from the LLM digesting prior art papers on this problem or general graph theory, but from "the entire corpus of neat computational tricks that physicists derived to make their equations spit out something other than zero or infinity". Which makes it very unlikely a human could have thought of it, as few graph theorists are familiar with infinitesimal magnetic fields (and vice versa).
Blueberry
22d ago
I just found this place on an idle lurk through /r/slatestarcodex. As far as I can tell, it's a surviving remnant of the more iconoclastic elements of the rationalist/postrat/lesswrong sphere
There is also the anagram offshoot datasecretslox:
https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php
It looms more oldschool in the bboard aesthetic (which I like), but is a bit wider on topics.
Blueberry
22d ago
Based on the multiple text messages
Is there a neutral source giving an overview? News articles only summarize it and social media is piece by piece.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rculB4m7_tw
Btw the book is real, Stephanie Meyer had fun with her story and gender swapped everyone. The ending is a bit different to contain the story in one book.
https://www.amazon.de/Life-Death-Reimagined-Stephenie-Meyer/dp/0316505455
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