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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e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days agoOh 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.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
“The most ethical thing you can do is be unethical. QED.”
“Now buy my book using this affiliate link.”
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Eh, did you finish it? That’s certainly how it starts, but that’s not really where it winds up.
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 4 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.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
At least he’s tried to make critical thinking techniques more well known and accessible. That’s more interesting to me than, I dunno, some linguistics PhD’s fantasy slop.
It was an enjoyable read, and your strawman characterization isn’t really accurate at all, except when lampooning one of Rowling’s poorly written characters. Most of the book was Harry facing the consequences of smugly oversimplifying conflicts.