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hairyfigment comments on Consider giving an explanation for your deletion this time around. "Harry Yudkowsky and the Methods of Postrationality: Chapter One: Em Dashes Colons and Ellipses, Littérateurs Go Wild" - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: hairyfigment 11 July 2014 06:38:46AM 1 point [-]

Name one.

Comment author: drethelin 11 July 2014 06:42:40AM 6 points [-]

"Harry James Potter-Yudkowsky was half Potter, half Yudkowsky. Harry just didn’t fit in. It wasn't that he lacked humanity. It was just that no one else knew (P)ManyWorlds, (P)singularity, or (P)theirspecialinsightintothetruebeautifulBayesianfractallyrecursivenatureof_reality. "

is a nigh perfect send-up, combining over-harsh but accurate criticism of HJPEV with a meta-story dig at the author's motivations.

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