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I read the wikipedia entry about it and i would like my 3 minutes back please

Covering one year at Hogwarts!

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I have read it! It’s not bad for a fanfic. And if you can’t base your new social order on somebody’s hobby writing riffs on other people’s original work for the entertainment of the kind of fans who put the “atic” in “fan,” what can you base it on? Social and political science, or something?

Worth noting that the fanfic is still ranked top 5 on fanfiction.net out of around 850k works, and that presumably happened before it moved to its own site. It's definitely not for everyone would but lots of people enjoyed it. Honestly, I think EY's takes have gone down hill since then

Maybe it was the fine line between 'we should be willing to do it', versus 'he said to do it' and/or the more extreme, 'he said to do it now'. I don't believe we framed it as either of the latter, but that's the only version that might have gotten pushback, imho.

It's in his book! What a weird thing to deny.

Aged what? That motherfucker is pushing 50 now?!

And the interminable overwrought prose.

I think I might choose to not chase him seriously and spend my time paying attention to the Arizona Fall League.

The Harry Potter fan fic is his best work!

Answer is clearly yes

Scott "I've never heard about selection effects and I don't care to know what they are" Siskind.

the one time I'm happy to be preemptively blocked by someone on social media

I think appalled cohost will go on my epitaph

I am intrigued in a ‘I feel like I am going to be witnessing an avoidable car crash’ kind of way

There is no escape.

This is a name I'm just seeing now, and while I'm very curious to feel informed on this trending discourse, I similarly have no desire to learn about this individual.

Wait, he wrote what?! I met him in 2009(?) and was quite certain that while he had a point that oversight on some tech stuff was needed, he was not the right person to save humanity, despite his conviction he was perhaps the only one who could.

I already knew about Yarvin, the basilisk and their obsession with a certain Harlan Ellison story but had no idea about the sex stuff until yesterday. Don't know how I missed that but I lament my loss of innocence!

I was familiar with the rationalists and their doomsday cult but had no idea about the Harry Potter fanfic, the birthday gang bang or the Zizians until last night and I'm jealous of yesterday me. Such innocence!

I've done a very potted summary in this podcast segment bsky.app/profile/jame...

yuuuuuuppp it's real he's very proud of it

The world does not need his take on AI, but I liked his fan fiction.

Well and making Harry to be a super genius who reinvented magic because he believed in Yudkowsky's fringe scientific beliefs is also a bit much. There's just a "I am so much smarter - and therefore so much better - than anyone except for a few select friends" attitude throughout the work.

I couldn't get through the first couple of pages.

Something entertaining about those less online than me having to get their heads around LessWrong, SlateStarCodex etc. I bet RationalWiki is getting a traffic spike.

Seconded.

Great philosophers have written fiction to be fair, question is what sets No Exit or The Stranger apart from HPATMOR

I remember there was a part where Harry was in a time loop (I think due to a challenge from Quirrel) where he sees himself from the outside and is like "damn. I think something might be wrong with me) and then I got bored.