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Feb 25, 2021

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

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

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@QiaochuYuan

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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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

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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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aw i like that scene

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@QiaochuYuan

Feb 26, 2021

it's a lovely scene tbf! and, it's extremely relevant (from my current pov) that it involves quirrell getting literally as far away from other people as he knows how to get

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yeah but that's only at the moment? he strongly rejects the view later when he knows about Azkhaban saying he can't leave the world until it is destroyed