I mean,if we try to make everything more rational,finally we wil no longer able to distinguish what is rational to what we made rational for me we have to leave room for irrational because it includes a large part of our world
What exactly do you mean with the irrational that includes a large part of your world? Do you feel it's threatened by Eliezer's writing?
I mean irrational allow the dream,have you ever thought about the fact you could be professional singer or astronaut or even better another person or animal, Keep some irrational in or life is essential to describe us as human. And no i don't feel it's threatened by this novel, this novel's great i think it's the fact that we make it a studie's object that CAN be threatening for the small part of irrationality we all still have. I'm not saying that for this behavior in particular, i'm saying that for all thoses kind of behavior like (just an exemple I read...
Two new short chapters! Since the next one is coming tomorrow and we know it'll be short, let's use one thread for both.
This is a new thread to discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and anything related to it. This thread is intended for discussing chapter 105 (and chapter 106, once it comes out tomorrow). EDIT: based on Alsadius' comment about thread creation for MOR chapters, let's also use this thread for chapter 107 (and future chapters until this nears 500 comments) unless someone objects to doing so. Given that this is the final arc we're talking about, thread titles should be updated to indicate chapters covered.
There is a site dedicated to the story at hpmor.com, which is now the place to go to find the authors notes and all sorts of other goodies. AdeleneDawner has kept an archive of Author’s Notes. (This goes up to the notes for chapter 76, and is now not updating. The authors notes from chapter 77 onwards are on hpmor.com.)
Spoiler Warning: this thread is full of spoilers. With few exceptions, spoilers for MOR and canon are fair game to post, without warning or rot13. More specifically: