Eneasz Brodsky

I think this is a large part.

of why rationalists are against wireheading, are against giving the future to an AI and then just being the human pets that the AI takes care of while it goes and colonizes the galaxy or whatever it does.

Because you can't have that and you shouldn't want to have that.

You want to form a network of peers who can affect the future and be agent-y in real life.

I mean, I was just going to continue along those lines that, yeah, the point of the story is to, as William says, to convince people that you shouldn't trust authorities.

You should instead use reason and logic to work out how the world works and then use those skills to solve the problems.

And Harry made the mistake of trusting an authority right at the start there.

And then the rest of the story was about him paying the consequences for that, realizing that error and becoming the person who wouldn't do that again in the future by the end of the book.

Is that the lesson Harry's meant to learn or the one that we're meant to learn?

Both.

We're meant to learn that through Harry.

Harry does learn it, but that is what we take away from it.

He perfectly pulled the quote.

I think if you were to pull out one single line out of all of HBO Moiré that encapsulates what it's about, it's Godric Gryffindor's, the one line Godric Gryffindor has in here,

No rescuer hath the rescuer, no lord hath the champion, no mother and no father, only nothingness above.

The Nihil Supernum.

And I think like, first of all, when he started writing, writing it, he wrote it under a pseudonym.

People figured out pretty quickly.

I think that it was him, but he didn't.

Cause it wasn't a pseudonym.