EY is gonna go down like Freud, with fascinating insights on human nature and present culture, and then half his conclusions being batshit wackadoodle nonsense.
That fanfic, within two chapters, goes from spotting Umberto Eco’s Ur-Fascism in the Death Eaters’ whole pitch, to declaring Hermoine an NPC unless she can pass a gatekeeping knowledge-check about quarks. If you told anyone today that Elizer Yudkowsky wrote a whole-ass Harry Potter book then HPMOR is exactly what they’d expect.
Eh, I doubt he’s made many fascinating insights so much as he’s compiled them. He seems like he’s trying to be The Great Educator of Rationality, and despite the verysmart pedantry I can get behind the sentiment. On the other hand, conceptual precision (i.e. pedantry) is pretty important to clearly expressing precise ideas, which is one of the bigger functions of communication in the first place. It is difficult to provide instruction on clear and deliberate reasoning without coming off, at least in part, as a pedantic dork.
Another good point from HPMOR
EY is gonna go down like Freud, with fascinating insights on human nature and present culture, and then half his conclusions being batshit wackadoodle nonsense.
That fanfic, within two chapters, goes from spotting Umberto Eco’s Ur-Fascism in the Death Eaters’ whole pitch, to declaring Hermoine an NPC unless she can pass a gatekeeping knowledge-check about quarks. If you told anyone today that Elizer Yudkowsky wrote a whole-ass Harry Potter book then HPMOR is exactly what they’d expect.
Eh, I doubt he’s made many fascinating insights so much as he’s compiled them. He seems like he’s trying to be The Great Educator of Rationality, and despite the verysmart pedantry I can get behind the sentiment. On the other hand, conceptual precision (i.e. pedantry) is pretty important to clearly expressing precise ideas, which is one of the bigger functions of communication in the first place. It is difficult to provide instruction on clear and deliberate reasoning without coming off, at least in part, as a pedantic dork.