NancyLebovitz comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 01 June 2010 01:14:39PM 2 points [-]

I had one in my comment-- that respectability varies more between mainstream culture and the people who are likely to read HPMOR than you realized.

Comment author: gwern 01 June 2010 03:06:12PM 4 points [-]

Harry Potter fanfiction and its readers is way closer to mainstream culture than the sort of people who could read that crossover fic; keep in mind, Harry Potter fanfiction novels have been published as have entire books just predicting what would happen in book 7 or comprising dictionaries of Harry Potter-ania (you may remember the lawsuit over the latter).