2026-08-25 00:21 UTC
@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol For what little it's worth, I tried to read HPMoR when it was first being posted. I got about two chapters in, and gave up, because (a) that version of Harry was too insufferable to put up with, (b) the author's prose style was *also* too insufferable (and clunky) to put up with, and (c) the "rationality" in the title was... hollow, is the best I can describe it umpteen years later. Not enough philosophical substance even to make a decent strawman.
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@zwol@masto.hackers.town 2026-08-25 00:27
@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol This is not based on HPMoR itself but rather on a bunch of the "LessWrong" essays that I remember more clearly: I think the most essential problem with Yudkowsky's philosophy is the same problem that shows up in fundie Christian polemic (Chick tracts, _Left Behind_, etc): if you asked them "what evidence would convince you you're wrong", they would say there is none.