That sounds suspiciously like Mass Effect, in which the Reapers ner gur erfhyg bs n HSNV gung qrpvqrq gb znvagnva gur tnynkl naq fbyir gur ceboyrz bs (uhzna-yriry uhzna-yvxr) ebobg eroryyvbaf fhpu nf gur Trgu ol trabpvqvat nyy fcnprsnevat pvivyvmngvbaf rire 50X lrnef naq gura tebjvat vgf ahzoref ol hcybnqvat naq punatvat gur hgvyvgl shapgvbaf bs gur ivpgvzf, gura znxvat gurz vagb arj havgf.
So Eliezer said in his March 1st HPMOR progress report:
So I read that and it was certainly very much worth reading - thanks for the recommendation! Obviously, the following contains spoilers.
I'm confused about how the story is supposed to be "terrifying". I rarely find any fiction scary, but I suspect that this is about something else: I didn't think Failed Utopia #4-2 was "failed" either and in Three Worlds Collide, I thought the choice of the "Normal" ending made a lot more sense than choosing the "True" ending. The Optimalverse seems to me a fantastically fortunate universe, pretty much the best universe mammals could ever hope to end up in, and I honestly don't see how it is a horror novel, at all.
So, apparently there's something I'm not getting. Something that makes an individual's hard-to-define "free choice" more valuable than her much-easier-to-define happiness. Something like a paranoid schizophrenic's right not to be treated,
So I'd like the dumb version please. What's terrifying about the Optimalverse?