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Eliezer Yudkowsky

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a work of alternate-universe Harry Potter fan-fiction wherein Petunia Evans has married an Oxford biochemistry professor and young genius Harry grows up fascinated by science and science fiction. When he finds out that he is a wizard, he tries to apply scientific principles to his study of magic, with sometimes surprising results.
1,636 printed pages
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Impressions

  • Lys Leeshared an impression7 years ago
    🔮Hidden Depths
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile
    💞Loved Up
    🚀Unputdownable

    The best book I have read for the last year ⚡️
    Though this books version is not complete, there is 20 chapters more on hpmor.com

  • Beatriz Camargoshared an impression2 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile
    🚀Unputdownable
    😄LOLZ

    One of my all time favorites. I've read it a couple of times in full now and keep going back for my favorite passages when I'm sad. I don't think I've ever read something that funny in my life. Plus you get to learn a lot about cognitive science and biases (just don't trust the physics it's not thaaat accurate).

  • al mshared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile
    💞Loved Up
    🚀Unputdownable
    😄LOLZ

    at first I went from "oh what crap, how could you do that to the Potter character" to "wow, amasing sense of humour". now I am somewhere in the middle of the book and love it.

Quotes

  • krivonosovapolyahas quoted8 years ago
    "World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimization."
  • Eugene Matveyevhas quoted7 years ago
    I knew that not thinking about something doesn’t stop it from happening
  • Olga Khvanhas quoted7 years ago
    I know that I'd just make myself unhappy by comparing that reality to... something perfect that I built up in my imagination

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