Anusha Narasimhan’s Reviews > Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres and the Methods of Rationality > Status Update

“That you do not know it for a certainty may reflect only your own ignorance." - I'm gonna say this to all the non-intuitive people who frown upon my intuitive methods.

"Clever kids in Ravenclaw, evil kids in Slytherin,
wannabe heroes in Gryffindor, and everyone who does the actual work
in Hufflepuff." - That's what I thought. And I don't belive in the Pottermore sorting, FYI.

"I’ve read The Feynman Lectures (or volume 1 anyway) and Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases and Language in Thought and Action and Influence: Science and Practice and Rational Choice in an Uncertain World and Godel, Escher, Bach and A Step Farther Out and—”

Yay! I've got a couple of books to add to Mt. TBR. Don't you love it when you get book recommendations from a book?

Why am I upset that Harry is smarter than Hermione? I did predict that, but it's still a bummer. Although, learning about "positive bias" was nice.

The funny thing about this book is that my opinion of Harry wavers like a sine curve. Now I like him again because he hasn't lost his moral sense.

"Giving someone a straight gift of two Sickles was found to be twice
as effective as offering them twenty Sickles in getting them to do what
you want…”

That sly little devil... definitely a Slytherin!

"scientifically illiterate was not at all the same thing as stupid." - Agreed!

"I know about the concept of child abuse, I know about inappropriate touching and all of that and if anything like that happened I would call the police! And report it to the head teacher! And look up social services in the phone book! And tell Grandpa and Grandma and Mrs. Figg!" - Attaboy, Harry!

So Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky proposed the planning fallacy phenomenon... I really must read "Thinking, Fast and Slow" once I finish this book.