Vive-ut-Vivas comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vive-ut-Vivas 27 May 2010 01:42:55AM 8 points [-]

The idea of promoting Less Wrong (and rationality in general) via Harry Potter fanfiction is so outside the box that I really shouldn't be surprised that it exists! What a great way to tap into a particular group of people that may not have necessarily found their way here otherwise. I wonder if we'll get any users to come out of the woodwork and say they've found LW through the fanfic?

I hope we see more projects like this (from anybody here) in the future!

Comment author: ArielS 28 May 2010 04:19:56PM 17 points [-]

wave Hello! Brand new, just discovered the site through the fanfic, and still in the looking-around stage... but yes, it does work.

It definitely helps that it is totally frelling awesome fanfic. Admittedly, I'm biased; I'm writing a Potter live-action role-playing game one of whose goals is to figure out how the heck that tacked-together universe could possibly make sense, and what would explain the observed evidence... ;)

Comment author: Vive-ut-Vivas 28 May 2010 06:53:36PM 2 points [-]

Welcome! Please feel free to join in the discussion. There's been a concerted effort here to make this place much less intimidating. Of course, once you spend some time reading Less Wrong, you're going to find your other hangouts woefully inadequate. ;-)

Comment author: RobinZ 27 May 2010 04:01:32AM 2 points [-]

It's already happened - I don't have a link, but I've seen at least one comment to that effect.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 27 May 2010 04:05:56AM 8 points [-]

I can also report that I have at least two friends who started reading the sequences after encountering HPMR.