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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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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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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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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