Comment on Anon has learned enough

• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality? I think it clocks in at like half the length of the entire original series.

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  • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Eh, did you finish it? That’s certainly how it starts, but that’s not really where it winds up.

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      • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I am sure it gets really good after 400 000 words more. However, I would much rather spend my time reading something other than the writings of a guy who doesn’t hold a degree of any sort, didn’t even finish high-school, but claims to be an expert in all the topics he ignorantly speculates about.

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    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “The most ethical thing you can do is be unethical. QED.”

      “Now buy my book using this affiliate link.”

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  • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah that’s the one - thanks!

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s a pretty decent audiobook in YouTube if you’re into that

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• burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  good

  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.

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  • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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).

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