Don't ask what has lead me to this point but it's been many years since I read it last 
I used to reread it due to updates, to refresh my memory of the plot.
I wrote like 10 cringe paragraphs of why I connect so deeply with HPMOR but realized no one is reading all that, and if you did, I probably wouldn't want you to anyway 
I wasn't allowed to read Harry Potter at 14 (or any other age) so I read HPMOR instead, I sneaked it onto my ereader lol 
I was an obnoxious hyperlexic nerd child. I haven't read Harry Potter to this day. I tried (when I first went to college), but it just wasn't the same. It felt like a weird fanfiction 
The first part was really funny, but I'm finding HPMOR much more depressing than the first time I read it. Is it because too many of the characters are too flat, manipulative, and mean? or because I know how things end up? 
So anyway, I need recommendations on something else to read 
but no smug "I hecking love Science" stuff because it's usually not good
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In terms of fantasy the magic goes away series by niven is cool. It's basically the originator of the mana/mp system in rpgs
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Related to the topic: what's with the ratstrag obsession with fan fiction and having absolute dogshit taste in literature? It seems like there's a general trend of reasonably clever autismos who just don't get the arts but are supremely confident in their ability to evaluate it.
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idk about them but I wasn't allowed to have too many books my mom or one of her friends hadn't read, and the books I did have I already read 5 times, so when I could siphon off some internet when one was looking, I started reading fanfic instead. (i didn't know about piracy and I was starting to scrape the project gutenberg barrel)
I remember being taken to the library and thinking "what an amazing amount of books I dare not touch" (my mom could see me at risk of corruption and freak out)
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TL;DR: Supreme confidence despite overwhelming autism and total lack of knowledge is the driving impulse behind rationalists.
The presumption isn't something tangential to rationalists, it's an extension of their core beliefs.
The rationalist intellectual project aims to solve all great issues of the individual, of society, even of humanity through "rationality". This concept being widely interpreted under the lens of Asperger's Syndrome, of course.
Ethics becomes a matter of torturing someone for years to avoid specks of dust going into millions of people's eyes and the threat of being placed in a simulated Heck by an AI God.
Literature becomes no better than a political tract battle of hyper-rational Übesmenschen or exercise in masturbatory "consistent world-building".
Unironically, I still hate Yudkowsky for recommending Worm to his readership. It's not perfect, but the fanbase would be so much better with no ratBIPOCs.
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I could never get into big Yuds writing despite reading less wrong for a while. I feel like I missed out, heck he still puts HPMOR as his claim to fame in his every so often long post rants
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I love the random diatribes about artifical intelligence in the text of HPMOR, some of them are so short, and they always make at least some sense--- but it's like EY's hyperfixation took over which is kind of funny
He literally can't go an hour without mentioning AI or he will combust
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Not a fan of HPMOR, but (((Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky's))) name is absolutely hilarious.
also that his career by now seems to just involve AI alarmism and screaming 'THE ROBOYIM KNOW SHUT IT DOWN'
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he secretly hopes there is an AI God that will become advanced enough to tech rapture his pop sickle corpse and be like "well done my faithful AI believer" and it's tragic
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Here's good stuff I enjoyed when I were a teen, always good for nostalgia:
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, the Bartimaeus trilogy, Leviathan, the Mortal Engines quartet, Discworld, Gaunt's Ghosts, Across the Face of the World, Mistborn, The Lies of Locke Lamora, the Thrawn trilogy, and Book of the New Sun (which you need to read like three times to at least)
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Man Bartimaeus trilogy was some kino. Always love an author willing to yeet characters and not write cringe lords or goody twoshoes.
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Frick you, you got me excited for self-aware cringe of literal Sheldon / HP fiction; I've already feasted on this painfully unaware cringe.
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This is why I love
@KONY_2022 sm no one else read fics before they read the stories and then thought the stories felt like cheap ripoffs. I did this to myself so many times. I'd convince myself that reading a few stories would be a good way to decide whether a universe was worth buying a book for and then feel like the writer sucked when I actually bought it
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the more mid the source, the better the fanfiction
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I just looked up HPMOR and it's one of those neurodivergent labour of love gems that you occasionally uncover when someone mentions it
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HAE noticed the general trope HPMOR Hermione gets up to? A girl that goes through resurrection and becomes chimeric and immortal. It happens in several other stories too. Frick I forgot which ones tho, maybe I'll recall.
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Some fetch scifi books: Ender's Game, Hyperion, Solaris, Stranger in a Strange Land, A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Roadside Picnic, Slaughterhouse Five. You can also look through the list of Hugo Award winners/nominees for books that seem interesting (from pre 2000 before the award pickers got infested with foids
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Also anything by Philip K Peepee, anything by Arthur C Clarke, The Book of the New Sun, Snow Crash, The Icarus Hunt, the Sprawl Trilogy, Mortal Engines quartet, & A Canticle for Leibowitz
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Can't say peepee innit. I mean peepee. Peepee. No, peepee
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"soul on ice" by eldridge cleaver.
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wtf I just read that a few weeks ago
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so you know about The Ogre.
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Quit being a cute twink and read Ulysses
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I read that when I was 10
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Read it again.
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Then read the magicians. It's literally what it's for. For real though go read it, it's what pottermore would have been if he had any insight into the fanbase and wasn't just a faux intellectual.
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Have you ever read Harry Potter and the Lack of Lamb Sauce?
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Added it to my reading list, king.
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Ok, give me a synopsis of Shelly going to wizard school.
You can't open with that kind of absurdity and not spill a lil about it
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Yes, it did fly over my head. Idk what HPMOR is.
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glad i'm not the only one
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Ikr, these niche nerds expect everyone else to know their esoteric acronyms
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It's about Sheldon Cooper going to Hogwarts.
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