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beoShaffer comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 16, chapter 85 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: beoShaffer 19 April 2012 05:49:16AM 2 points [-]

it seemed like cheap overconfident grandstanding of the kind fitting to an 11 year old.

I'm confused is this supposed to be a criticism of the writing or of Harry?

Comment author: wedrifid 19 April 2012 07:30:54AM 3 points [-]

I'm confused is this supposed to be a criticism of the writing or of Harry?

Harry, to a certain extent. As well as not the writing per se, but the brand of transhumanist bluster written about. Where some we emotionally roused to cheering, I cringed.