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Ron Weasley is a redhead

Harry Potter is white

Snape is black

At least one named character from the book has their race changed

Harry, Ron, and Hermione’s actors will all be British

A character cut from the movies appears (ie Theodore Nott)

McGonagall performs an animagus transformation (human2cat or cat2human)

Hagrid is played by an actor who is under 6'4"

Premieres in 2027

Harry Potter doesn't cast a single spoken, working spell in the first episode

Quirrel is wearing a head covering when Harry first meets him

Dumbledore casts a spell (spoken or wordlessly)

Arthur Weasley is shown on screen

Malfoy has white blonde hair

There’s a scene set before Harry is born

Fred and George are twins irl

JK Rowling is credited as both an executive producer and original writer

The potion riddle guarding the Stone will be featured

Ron Weasley doesn't cast a single, spoken, working spell in the first two episodes

Peeves is a reoccurring character

Cornelius Fudge is shown on screen

It's woke

An actor who acted in the movies returns for the show

Harry first sees Hogwarts castle in episode 2

Hagrid says "You’re a wizard, Harry"

A scene depicts Voldemort trying to kill baby Harry

Hermione’s parent(s) shown on screen

mandrake root on screen

80% or higher on rotten tomatoes

Homosexual interaction between some characters will be presented

Hermione is white

A History of Magic lesson is shown on screen

A house elf is shown on screen

Arabella Figg is mentioned by first or last name

Hagrid ties Vernon’s gun into a knot

The Quibbler is shown or mentioned

An actor who appeared in any of the Jackass films receives a credit on IMDB related to the show

It will be torrentfreak.com's "Most Pirated" TV show for its year of release or the following year

At least one named character from the book has their gender swapped

Harry only reaches Hogwarts in the last 10 minutes of the first episode

Luna Lovegood, Cho Chang, or Cedric Diggory are mentioned by first or last name, or are in the credits

Goblins are still represented as anti-semitic caricatures

It ends on a cliff hanger

The Weasley's Ford Anglia is seen flying

Harry Potter doesn't cast a single, spoken, working spell in the first three episode

An Astronomy lesson is shown on screen

Harry visits Diagon Alley in episode 1

The Flying Ford Anglia is seen.

Harry is shown holding more than three different wands at Ollivander’s

Hagrid presents a cake with writing on it to Harry and the writing has no misspellings

90% or higher on rotten tomatoes

Harry first sees Hogwarts castle in episode 3

At least one of the actors is transgender

The intro theme song will have at least one obvious English word

Quirrel shakes Harry’s hand during their first meeting

VOLDEMORT HAS A NOSE

Dobby makes an appearance

Any Harry Potter fanfic is referenced (either explicitly as judged by market creator, or confirmed by someone who works on the show)

We see a wizarding school other than Hogwarts

Premieres in 2026

"Voldemort" has a silent "t"

Awkwafina is cast in the show

Harry visits Platform 9 3/4 in episode 1

We get AGI before it premieres

Voldemort is a woman

Hagrid is played by an actor with a cognitive disability

Keir Starmer is in it

Features an explicitly transgender character

Fred and George have the same actor

JK Rowling makes a cameo appearance

Zendaya is cast in the show

Hermione is black

Smartphone shown within Hogwarts

There will be seven CGI dwarves

Rita Skeeter will have an explicit trans identity

Hermione is Indian

Gandalf is black

Hagrid is black

Yudkowsky makes an appearance

HPMOR is referenced

One or more of Hermione, Ron, and Harry have their genders swapped.

A person has a moral right to own a gun

We should be paying individuals to get an education instead of charging them.

GOFAI could scale past machine learning if we used social media strategically to train it.

The Fermi paradox isn't a paradox, and the solution is obviously just that intelligent life is rare.

Other

Some people have genuine psychic capabilities

Eventually, only AI should be sovereign

Hardware buttons are superior to touchscreen buttons in cars

Being a billionaire is morally wrong

The way quantum mechanics is explained to the lay public is very misleading.

Jeffrey Epstein killed himself (>99.9% certainty)

Reincarnation is a real phenomenon (i.e. it happens, not just a theory)

Physician-assisted suicide should be legal in most countries

Souls/spirits are real and can appear to the living sometimes

OpenAI will claim to have AGI in 3 years.

The punishment of people who do bad things is a regrettable necessity in our current society, not a positive act of justice

There is an active genocide against trans people occuring in red states and it's appalling that people don't seem to care

Climate change is significantly more concerning than AI development

Abusive parents should lose custody of their children

Dialetheism (the claim that some propositions are both true and false) is itself both true and false.

COVID lockdowns didn’t save many lives; in fact they may have caused net increases in global deaths and life years lost.

Free will does not exist. We construct narratives after the fact to soothe our belief in rationality.

Violent criminals must be kept apart only because they can’t control themselves. Punishing them further than restricting their freedom is immoral.

Music is a net negative for humanity

Trump orchestrated his own assassination attempt.

Democrats / Liberals are behind Trump’s assassination attempt.

It is not possible to multitask

Abortion is morally wrong

jskf's password is ***************

The first American moon landing was faked

There is no Dog

Light mode is unironically better than Dark mode for most websites

Cars should not have sound systems

AI will not be as capable as humans this century, and will certainly not give us genuine existential concerns

Pet ownership is morally wrong

LK-99 room temp, ambient pressure superconductivity pre-print will replicate before 2025

SBF didn't intentionally commit fraud

It should be illegal to own a subwoofer in an apartment building

There are no valid justifications for participating in war, ever

Cascadia should be an independent country

Children should not be raised in nuclear families

The fact that 80% of Manifold's users are men is a problem that speaks to the deep-seated roots of patriarchy and exclusion in STEM

Anarcho-communism is a good idea, and hierarchy is bad

If AI exterminated the human race it might not be a bad thing

Tech bros are really, really annoying

Capitalism has done far more harm than good

Affirmative action is necessary in modern-day America

@Mira is the pinnacle of billions of years of optimization processes: thermodynamics, evolution, learning, language. The universe was created to cause me - and only me - to come into existence. If I mess up the overseers perturb&restart it.

Pigouvian taxes are great and they should be turned up to 11 to discourage activities with negative externalities [code PROPOSITION PIG]

[PROPOSITION PIG] and this should include a frequent flyer levy

[PROPOSITION PIG] and this should include meat and dairy

We have reached the end of history. Nothing Ever Happens.

[PROPOSITION PIG] and this should include alcohol

SBF was obviously a scammer just because he's a cryptocurrency person. Rationalists were too forgiving of this just because he was giving them money.

Most young Americans would receive more benefit than harm if there were universal military conscription

The people producing fake honey (and sell it as real) are based, because they are actively working to synthesize something people want, even if they scam some people in the process.

Tarot cards are not really able to predict the future but you can learn a lot about someone by doing a reading for someone.

Mac and cheese tastes better with peanut butter mixed in

It would actually be a good thing if automation eliminated all jobs.

Free will doesn't require the ability to do otherwise.

This market probably would have worked better as the new unlinked free response market.

We should be doing much more to pursue human genetic engineering to prevent diseases and aging.

Prolonged school closures because COVID were socially devastating.

Factory farming is horrific but it is not wrong to eat meat.

California is wildly overrated.

Scientific racism is bad, actually. (also it's not scientific)

The next American moon landing will be faked

Tenet (Christopher Nolan film) is underrated

We should give childlike sex robots to pedophiles

Having sex with children isn't inherently/necessarily bad

Cars are a societal net negative

Oversized pickup trucks should be illegal in cities

Suburban, single-family housing is immoral.

Magic: The Gathering

Cult of the Lamb

Death's Door

Shift Happens

Baba is You

Understand

The Witness

Hollow Knight

It Takes Two

Unravel Two

Portal 2

Braid

Portal

Superliminal

The Talos Principle

The Talos Principle 2

Antichamber

Perspective

Portal Reloaded

Portal Stories: Mel

Thinking with Time Machine

Cell Machine

Hades

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Superhot

Slay the Princess

Escape Academy

Split Fiction

Don't Starve

The Room

Pico Park

Wargroove

Patrick's Parabox

scarlet hollow

Tokimeki Memorial

Game Inside A Game Inside A Game Inside A Game Inside A Game Inside A Game Inside A Game Inside A Game Inside A Game Inside A Game Inside A Game Inside A Game Inside A Game Inside A Game Inside A Game Inside A Game Inside A Game Inside A

Bokura

The Stanley Parable

Stardew Valley

Mini Motorways

Children of Morta

Detroit: Become Human

We Were Here Too

Splendor (tabletop game)

Castle Crashers

Timberborn

Terraria

Goragoa

Spiritfarer

Minecraft

Beyond: Two Souls

Chants of Sennaar

Patch Quest

We Were Here

Wild Woods

Manifold Garden

We Were Here Forever

We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip

Baldur's Gate 3

Hades 2

Clandestine

Nobody Saves the World

Lovers in Dangerous Spacetime

Glider (1988)

Rayman Legends

LittleBigPlanet 3

Human: Fall Flat

Trine 2

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

Magicka

Mind over Magnet

Bean and nothingness

Yume Nikki

Space Station 13

999

Nomifactory

Monifactory

Rebirth of the Night

Hyperrogue

Induction

Akane

Zero Time Dilemma

Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward

Morrowind

Q.U.B.E. 2

Q.U.B.E.

Moonlighter

going under: internships are heck

blue prince

Void Stranger

Pico Park 2

We Were Here Together

Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Unstable Unicorns 🦄

Mario Party

Exploding kittens

The House of DaVinci

Tunic

Moving Out

Moving Out

Fez

A Couple Of Cubes

Root (tabletop or digital version)

Rainworld

Deadly Rooms of Death

CrossCode

Islands of Insight

Outer Wilds

SteamWorld Dig

Snakebird

Monopoly

Chess

Slay the Spire

Among Us

Stephen's Sausage Roll

Amazing Chicken Adventures

Wingspan

Can of Wormholes

Disco Elysium

Overcooked

Return of the Obra Dinn

Inscryption

Slice and Dice

Teardown

Cascading failure (like something went wrong and the recovery procedure had an issue that made it worse)

Loss of synchronism

Strain on electrical/transmission infrastructure principally caused by renewable energy sources

Low or insufficient inertia

Battery storage

Renewables made the grid less stable

Never found root cause

Accidental infrastructure damage (fallen tower, wildlife, etc)

Bad weather

The cause didn't originate in Spain (was propagated by EU grid)

Intended infrastructure damage (cable cut, bomb, etc)

It's declared a cyber attack

Cyber attack & Russia-funded

Cyber attack & independent group

"Intern plugged wrong cable"

Fingerprint

Harp

Shovel

Leafless Tree

Splatter

Root Vegetable

Trombone

Seahorse

Face with Bags Under Eyes

Windmill

Pepper shaker

Tumbleweed

Origami/Paper Crane

Toucan

Candy Cane

Gnome

stained glass window

Ballet shoes

Vulture

Triceratops

Chainsaw

Food Cart

Bowl of Blended Soup / Smooth Soup (NOT POT OF FOOD or RAMEN)

Armadillo

Hot Air Balloon

Mime

cotton candy

Seatbelt

NO

YES

Decompose it into infinite spheres, then a few parts per sphere, rotate the spheres by arccos(1/3), unite them and you will find 2 chilis (Banach-Tarski)

Put the chili in a taco

Tip every user who bet YES on this option 69 Mana while preparing the chili

Assume the chili is not in the interval [0,1], square it for more chili, if it is in (0,1), take the square root, else (equals 0 or 1) add 1 to it.

Use sourdough instead of yeast

Make the chili "bigly"

Make the chili great again

Make the chili the bestest, bigliest chili in the land

Trumpify the chili

Vote for the chili

Turn the chili into a metaphor (NOT a simile) for the best moment of your life

Make it edible and throw it in

Make the chili "big league"

Season with your heart

Get your friends to help you make a batch ten times the size, but add a Pepper X (2.7M Scoville heat units) to the mixture

Assume the chili is in the interval [0,1], take the square root for less chili, if it is not in (0,1), square it, else (equals 0 or 1) subtract 1 from it.

Assume the chili is continuous. Then find an antiderivative of the chili.

Reboot the chili

Translate the chili

Replace a local church's communion with the chili (you can choose whether it replaces the bread or the wine)

The

Put pure resiniferatoxin in it (16 billion scoville heat units)

Add a teaspoon of powdered thorium (chemical symbol Th)

Commit armed robbery against the chili for its mana. (the chili's account is @EliezerYudkowsky)

Take the square root of the chili

Deport the chili

Forgo the concept of chili

AI-generate the chili

Add a different temperature to the current one

Use the chili as ink to write in DONALD J TRUMP down the ballot

Add SpaghettiOs

Australia Win

Australia Win Toss

Australia Bowl First

Draw

Smith 100

Starc 10fa

Atkinson 5fa

Starc 5fa

Root 100

Australia Win Game

Australia Win Toss

Australia Bowl First

Winner by innings

Draw

Smith 100

Cummins 5fa

Boland MOTM

Root 100

Change spacecraft's re-entry trajectory

Other

Partially disassemble the spacecraft

Cancel the Artemis program

Australia Win Game

Australia Win Toss

Australia Bat First

Someone announces retirement during the game

Winner by innings

Smith 100

Hazelwood 5fa

Lose a whole day due to rain

Root 100