Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Re: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
#2Discussed previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385932
There are some links to an ePub version if anyone's interested (I enjoyed it).
It also looks like the author regularly appends new content. I'm going to need to re-read this!
Re: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
#3Highly recommended to anyone who hasn't been reading it. I'm impatiently awaiting new chapters...there are quite a few interesting directions it can go in after the last sequence.
Re: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
#4Wow! I never expected to see this posted here. I'm a closet Harry Potter fanfiction reader, and I loved this story. I think it's time to re-read this again.. be back in a while.
Re: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
#5Recently re-read it myself. A tip for new readers -- if you find this version of Harry insufferable, yet the basic concept makes you keep reading, wait for around Chapter 20, where a much-needed mentor helps him learn some self-control.
Re: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
#6This is ridiculously awesome piece of fiction. If your friends are of the sort where logic at least partially underlies their thinking and behavior more so than it does most folks, then you will really love this.
Bewarned, it's very well written and fun(ny). You may fall out of your chair with laughter
Re: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
#7It sounds crazy, but as someone who reads a lot of fiction (and very little fan fiction, because most of it's crap), I sincerely think this is one of the best things I've read in years. I'd personally rank it up with Asimov or Heinlein at their best.
If you're the kind of person, upon discovering a 'wizarding world' would:
- Look into establishing arbitrage between the wizards' fixed ratio of Gold/Silver currency and the muggles' variable ratio
-Try to discover the underlying laws and mechanics of magic
-Use a time machine to prove/disprove P == NP
Read this Book!
Re: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
#8Discussed previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385932 There are some links to an ePub version if anyone's interested (I enjoyed it). It also looks like the author regularly appends new content. I'm going to need to re-read this!
Also, some kind soul is maintaining an RSS feed for chapter updates, since FF.net seems to be stuck in the last decade: http://demented.no-ip.org/~feep/rss_proxy.cgi?5782108
Re: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
#9Pro tip: Because of the smallish text size and full-screen layout (which gives some of us absurdly unfriendly line lengths), I find Safari's "Reader" feature to be indispensable in reading this fic.
Re: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
#10It sounds crazy, but as someone who reads a lot of fiction (and very little fan fiction, because most of it's crap), I sincerely think this is one of the best things I've read in years. I'd personally rank it up with Asimov or Heinlein at their best. If you're the kind of person, upon discovering a 'wizarding world' would: - Look into establishing arbitrage between the wizards' fixed ratio of Gold/Silver currency and…
Use a time machine to prove/disprove P == NP
Also note that Harry is either ahead of the times (he doesn't mention the Moravec paper in-story) or very, very au courant, being perhaps the only eleven year old in the world to be reading preprints of theoretical computer science papers while also attending wizarding school.
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