Since Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is apparently still a thing, I figured I’d spend a few minutes before fediverse monster-movie night to collect relevant links:

And a question dug up from one of those old threads: OK, so, Yud poured a lot of himself into writing HPMoR. It took time, he obviously believed he was doing something important — and he was writing autobiography, in big ways and small. This leads me to wonder: Has he said anything about Rowling, you know, turning out to be a garbage human?

  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
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    1 day ago

    “If you think you can point to an unnecessary sentence within [HPMoR], go ahead and try.” --Eliezer Yudkowsky, August 2022

    This is just a trap to trick people into reading the first sentence of HPMoR isn’t it?