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
- 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)
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?
References that I thought this was before I looked it up: star wars EU (gom jabba-r), or one piece (gomu gomu jabbar). It was neither and just dune.
I can picture Yud smirking to himself, thinking of how clever he is for shoving a sci-fi reference into a fantasy universe, in doing so injecting just a little more rationality into an otherwise irrational genre.
Anyway here’s the rejected RP1 theme song