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Having just started following these threads, I've decided to reread the entire fic from the beginning. I'm only in chapter two, but has anyone considered why Harry has a 26 hour sleep cycle? This always seemed like a bad excuse to get Harry a time turner to me, and when I was reading it the first two (I think?) times, I excused it as bad writing. Now I'm thinking it may be deliberate, and my model of EY was wrong. Perhaps Horcrux!Harry has control (strongly put) over Harry for two hours every day, and this is the rise of his odd sleep cycle.
I think HP is partially based on EY. For example, EY once bit a teacher. Also he stopped attending school for different reasons.
That is really interesting. But I can't help but feel like I'm violating his privacy when I read that:
In light of that, it's difficult for me to feel OK reading it on WayBack Machine...
I'm sure Eliezer knows that old stuff of his is on archive.org. If he wanted to, he could have it removed.
Indeed, information security is a process, not a status.
Duplicating the page, maybe, but he absolutely can't forbid quoting it or linking to it; those actions'd fall under fair use in most cases.
(That is, if you care about copyright law at all.)
I was going to forward you the link I had to that page somewhere in the wild, but looks like my bookmark is to the wayback machine as well. Whoops...
This is everything I've wanted to know about Eliezer.
It probably shouldn't be everything you wanted to know about him.
This is what EY thought of his own history in 2000. He was only 21, at the cusp of adulthood.
Now EY has a better understanding of present EY, of EY in 2000, and of his own history throughout. And he's still probably wrong about things about himself that are obvious to others and go unmentioned anyway, like almost everyone.
You could reasonably want to know less than everything, you could reasonable want to know all the things on that page, but you are probably not serving your own interests well if the things on that page are all you seek to know.
Yeah, I wasn't being literal. What I meant was that I really enjoy reading a personal narrated biography of someone that I really admire. Usually you can't get that until they're super famous or dead.