ShardPhoenix comments on Open Thread: April 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 April 2010 10:55:56PM 13 points [-]

Yeah, I don't think I can plausibly deny responsibility for this one.

Googling either (rationality + fanfiction) or even (rational + fanfiction) gets you there as the first hit, just so ya know...

Also, clicking on the Sitemeter counter and looking at "referrals" would probably have shown you a clickthrough from a profile called "LessWrong" on fanfiction.net.

Want to know the rest of the plot? Just guess what the last sentence of the current version is about before I post the next part on April 3rd. Feel free to post guesses here rather than on FF.net, since a flood of LW.com reviewers would probably sound rather strange to them.

Comment author: ShardPhoenix 04 April 2010 08:23:05AM *  2 points [-]

This is a lot of fun so far, though I think McGonnagal was in some ways more in the right than Harry in chapter 6. Also, I kind of feel like Draco's behavior here is a bit unfair to the wizarding world as portrayed in the canon - the wizarding world is clearly not at all medieval in many ways (especially in the treatment of women where the behavior we actually see is essentially modern), so I'm not sure why it should necessarily be so in that way. Regardless of my nitpicking it's a brilliant fanfic and it's nice to see muggle-world ideas enter the wizarding world (which always seemed like it should have happened already).