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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
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
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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
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@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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@MasterTimBlais
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yeah i think the book takes for granted a perspective of being alienated from the world by some combination of intellect, personality and foreignness of life experience. A lot of its conflict is about consciously choosing humanity over the pull of detachment, but the pull is real
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@MasterTimBlais
that resonated with me as it probably does with a lot of people in the potential-rationalist demographic. Finding yourself overintellectualized and undersocialized in a society that's mostly built for the inverse, that pull to just retreat to beautiful abstraction
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