@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol Your assessment of Yudkowsky and his followers is spot on, thank you for setting it out so compellingly. I have read _Methods of Rationality_ but it didn't recruit me to the Effective Altruism cult. It has some good points, reasonable criticism of JKR from the right, and a surprisingly good exploration of the Dark Lord being part of Harry in a way that the originals just handwaved. It also has a lot of self-indulgent monologue exactly as you predicted. It's not great literature but it's by no means _Mein Kampf_. I don't think anyone has a duty to read anything, but there is more to it than just the title.