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NihilCredo comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 12 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NihilCredo 26 March 2012 11:04:27AM 7 points [-]

Re-posting it so you see it in the inbox:

Eliezer, could you please confirm / deny / decline to answer whether the fic is past its halfway point? Anubhav and I have a persistent memory that you did at one point state that it was, but I can't find that statement so I'm wondering if I just crossed a couple of brain-wires.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 March 2012 07:58:45PM 12 points [-]

It's past the halfway point.

Comment author: moritz 27 March 2012 07:09:39AM 14 points [-]

For purely selfish reasons I hope it's in the "first 80% done, second 80% being worked on" sense.

Comment author: wedrifid 27 March 2012 08:35:37AM *  12 points [-]

For purely selfish reasons I hope it's in the "first 80% done, second 80% being worked on" sense.

For purely selfish reasons I'm ambivalent. I like fanfiction as much as the next guy but kind of wouldn't mind it if Eliezer spent his efforts trying to save the world. ;)

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 27 March 2012 10:14:26AM 20 points [-]

As long as HP:MoR remains unfinished, thousands of people who could be helping Eliezer build a Friendly AI are instead sitting by their web browsers, repeatedly pressing Ctrl+R.

Finishing HP:MoR is the necessary first step towards Singularity.

Comment author: Alsadius 27 March 2012 06:12:30PM 10 points [-]

The thing is, I know he can do the fanfic. I seriously doubt he can save the world.

Comment author: wedrifid 28 March 2012 02:09:36AM 5 points [-]

I seriously doubt he can save the world.

I am approximately 95% sure the world will be lost (ie. we'll all die). It would seem that I must agree with you.

Comment author: MatthewBaker 27 March 2012 09:50:30AM *  1 point [-]

safe the world. ;)

If you have any more zingers like that please use them before the story is over. I don't think my heart will be able to handle the combined laughter.

On this forum we tend to want Eliezer to get back to work sometime before 2049 and so we cant have an endless saga of 7 fan-fictions in sequence culminating with a double movie ;)

Comment author: Alsadius 27 March 2012 12:20:44AM 4 points [-]

:(

Comment author: NihilCredo 27 March 2012 12:14:05PM 1 point [-]

Thank you. Also, sigh.

Comment author: Blueberry 27 March 2012 08:50:24AM 1 point [-]

Does that preclude sequels?

Comment author: Anubhav 10 April 2012 11:45:24AM 1 point [-]

If he wanted to write sequels, the obvious way to do it would be to continue the fic.

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