The first part is the best - a beat-for-beat parallel of the first book. Then it starts to deviate and gets kind of self-absorbed.
The author, Eliezer Yudkowsky is a famous AI researcher with somewhat controversial opinions. You may have heard of his piece “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”.
He’s also witten “Rationality: From AI to Zombies” which might be interesting if you like the “rationality” aspect of the fanfic. It’s really dense, though - I’d very much recommend anyone to start with HPMoR.
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Yeah, the author was writing it over the course of a couple years, releasing chapters semi-regularly.
The writing is solid and you can tell they poured a ton of passion into it, so I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I mentioned it and hubs immediately went on an unhinged rant about something called rationalism, “a snowcrash style ocean flotilla cult,” and his trust fund friend who hates homeless people (in his defense he did get stabbed but I can also hear him in my head saying the kind of dumbass thing that would get him stabbed).
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Yeah, I don’t know about any of that. The book is largely a what-if story, with the main focus being a look at how Harry might have navigated the wizarding world if his parents were alive during his childhood and raised him to question things in life and taught him how to use the scientific method to understand the things he observes in reality.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah that’s basically what anyone who knows a lot about the culture that formed in the wake of the fanfic thinks. That and people too insufferable for lemmy
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah hubs is right about these things about 90% of the time (me not being on those parts of the internet often) but nobody bats 100%