The fanfic that tried to apply logic to JKR’s writing lead to an actual, real life murder.
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SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 months ago
Trying to apply logic to JKR’s writing will surely lead to madness.
stray@pawb.social 2 months ago
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
O.o wait what.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
You mean the one by the AI wackjob?
Grerkol@leminal.space 2 months ago
Please explain
steeznson@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s a good fanfic series that tries to apply science to the HP universe. I made it like 50 pages into the 300+ page book which is longer than I’d usually read a fanfic for.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality? I think it clocks in at like half the length of the entire original series.
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Oh great the foundational work of the rationalist community. Enjoy 650 000 words of Eliezer Yudkowsky’ preaching and his self-insert smartly destroying straw-man after straw-man while everybody claps.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Eh, did you finish it? That’s certainly how it starts, but that’s not really where it winds up.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Ironic, you’re describing a strawman version of it. The writing in the beginning might have sine resemblance to it, but if becomes something very different.
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“The most ethical thing you can do is be unethical. QED.”
“Now buy my book using this affiliate link.”
steeznson@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah that’s the one - thanks!
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
There’s a pretty decent audiobook in YouTube if you’re into that
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You and I have very different ideas of what the word ‘good’ means, lol. The first, like, two chapters were fine as lampooning the poorly thought out logic of rowling’s world, but by chapter 8 or so it just was the same thing over and over again: mary sue thinker boy immediately noticing the giant flaws of the main author and having already rationalized the perfect exploit in a split second.
If it really became good later, well, first impressions matter and it had a pretty bad one.
steeznson@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I also say in the next sentence I only made it 50 pages in. Not really a fanfic person so hard to judge the quality of it (my prejudice would be that most of it is shite).