“I don’t want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more…” — Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality 📚 log(book)

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I don’t want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

Cover of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

by Eliezer Yudkowsky · published 2015 · read 2014-11-01

★★★☆☆

HPMOR is both the best and the worst of rationalist fiction. Terrible, terrible writing, in a physically painful stilted style, and oh-so-fucking superior. There aren't even characters in this story, only symbols.