TheMajor comments on Harry Yudkowsky and the Methods of Postrationality: Chapter One: Em Dashes Colons and Ellipses, Littérateurs Go Wild - Less Wrong

-7 Post author: Will_Newsome 06 July 2014 09:34AM

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Comment author: TheMajor 06 July 2014 07:37:47PM 1 point [-]

If I'm being honest (and I do hope that that is what you asked for) then I'd like to mention that personally I didn't really enjoy the story above. The idea of self-aware characters sounds awesome, but I was a bit disturbed by the fact that the main character was named after Eliezer Yudkowsky. Making brilliant characters with nigh-impossible rationality skills is fine (and lots of fun to read!), but this seems to cross that subtle border between interesting fanfic and uncomfortable devotion. My did-I-just-join-a-cult-sensor is going off. I think changing the name of Harry Potter-Yudkowsky would be a good idea.

The above is a bit exaggerated, I'd still read the story and enjoy it if you kept the name. But the initial flinch was real.

Comment author: CronoDAS 09 July 2014 02:13:48AM 2 points [-]

The idea of self-aware characters sounds awesome

Try this.

Comment author: TheMajor 12 July 2014 01:19:31PM 0 points [-]

Wow, I loved it!

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 09 July 2014 09:44:02AM -1 points [-]