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?

    • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      From the first and most popular comment

      Your average narcissistic personality tests assume an average person as a test-taker, and so cannot tell whether one’s overly inflated ego is justified or not.

      yeehaw

    • zogwarg@awful.systemsEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      Oof on the part of the author though:

      Eliezer Yudkowsky: Nope.

      Algernoq (the blogpost author): I assume this is a “Nope, because of secret author evidence that justifies a one-word rebuttal” or a “Nope, you’re wrong in several ways but I have higher-value things to do than retype the sequences”. (Also, it’s an honor; I share your goal but take a different road.) […]

      Richard_Kennaway: What goal do you understand yourself to share with Eliezer, and what different road?

      Algernoq: I don’t deserve to be arrogant here, not having done anything yet. The goal: I had a sister once, and will do what I can to end death. The road: I’m working as an engineer (and, on reflection, failing to optimize) instead of working on existential risk-reduction. My vision is to build realistic (non-nanotech) self-replicating robots to brute-force the problem of inadequate science funding. I know enough mechanical engineering but am a few years away from knowing enough computer science to do this.