![]() ![]() The general premise is that Harry Potter’s Aunt Petunia marries an Oxford professor instead of Vernon Dursley. Concepts like Bayesian updating and evolutionary biology are well explained, but are done so partially as a critique of the Harry Potter universe. I assume the project began as a way to teach rationality through a common pop culture phenomenon, and it’s pretty solid at doing that. HPMOR, unlike The Sequences, is fiction, and I found it incredibly easy to read. I read the first couple of books, but they’re pretty dense and my interest dropped off. Last year I tried to read the essays known as “ The Sequences” or Rationality: A-Z at LessWrong. ![]() ![]() Through SSC, I found writings by Yudkowsky, mostly about artificial intelligence. I wasn’t around at the time, but I eventually found Scott Alexander’s work at Slate Star Codex, who is linked in the sidebar and is one of the inspirations for this blog. Yudkowsky is the creator of LessWrong which I often use as a shorthand for the entire Rationality space. ![]() Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a Harry Potter fanfic written by Eliezer Yudkowsky (which you can find here). ![]()
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