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HPMOR after learning about trauma: how did no one notice that the rationalist parts of harry are, canonically, the parts he inherited from voldemort

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@MasterTimBlais

· Feb 24, 2021

HPMOR when you haven’t read anything on LessWrong: man what a cool nerdy reimagining, very on-point deconstruction, Ender’s Game With Wizards HPMOR when you’ve already read the sequences: wait this is propaganda? wow this is propaganda good propaganda tho

6:46 AM · Feb 25, 2021Twitter for iPad

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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would love to see a psychoanalytic read of HPMOR. the space scene with quirrellmort stands out in my mind, as a kind of schizoid fantasy. that’s the fantasy of a man incapable of and horrified by relating to other human beings. and harry eats it up!

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@QiaochuYuan

Feb 25, 2021

some v thought-provoking material in these two blog posts about the psychological function of space travel as a fantasy ecosophia.net/the-worlds-tha ecosophia.net/terror-deep-ti

ecosophia.net

The Worlds That Never Were

In order to finish sorting out the foundations for the project this blog will pursue, I want to talk a little more about science fiction. That’s not the digression that it may look like at first gl…

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@QiaochuYuan

Feb 25, 2021

also did anyone have “the a cappella science guy starts hanging out on rat/postrat twitter” on their 2021 bingo card because like... i’m sorry tim, i’ll stop bringing this up soon, i promise, welcome, hope you enjoy your stay

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hmm harry potter as a conflict between bureaucracy and antibureaucracy which mirrors a conflict between rationality and postrationality or something, or a conflict between utilitarianism and virtue

Mikael Brockman

@meekaale

Feb 25, 2021

(quote from Graeber's "The Utopia of Rules")

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HPMOR contains the most hilarious reductio of a certain kind of materialism. The way to get as close to reality as possible, to see it as it really is, is... to close your eyes and imagine shit?? hpmor.com/chapter/28

Trinley Goldenberg

@mattgoldenberg

Feb 25, 2021

This happens over and over in HPMOR. The best way to discover facts about reality is to make wild logical leaps and later be proven right by deus ex machina.