General HPMoR sneer collection
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
by blakestacey@awful.systems
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Since Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is apparently still a thing, I figured I'd spend a few minutes before fediverse monster-movie night to collect relevant links:
- Archive of su3su2u1 review (among other things an easy intro to how the "science" in HPMoR is bunk)
- Spacebattles.com forum thread: The Wizard of Woah and Irrational Methods of Irrationality
- HPRick and Morty
- "If you think you can point to an unnecessary sentence within [HPMoR], go ahead and try."
- Sneering at Yudkowsky's advice about writing "awesome" characters
- Sneering at Yudkowsky's retrospective interview (August 2025)
- Sneering at Yudkowsky's presence on a TV Tropes fork
And a question dug up from one of those old threads: OK, so, Yud poured a lot of himself into writing HPMoR. It took time, he obviously believed he was doing something important — and he was writing autobiography, in big ways and small. This leads me to wonder: Has he said anything about Rowling, you know, turning out to be a garbage human?