“Because the outside world was my enemy, Harry! I’m the only friend
I’ve got, Harry! It’s just Tom Riddle and Tom! Tom and Tom and my plots,
Tom! Tom and Tom forever and forever, 100 years, Tom and Tom’s things!
Tom and Tom running around and uh… Tom and Tom time! All day long,
forever… all- a hundred days! Tom and Tom forever a hundred times! Over
and over, lesswrong.com. hpmor.com. reddit.com/r/rational. All 100
years. Every minute, hpmor.com. Donate to MIRI for faster updates.”
…this is just a hit piece on Eliezer Yudkowsky, isn’t it.
Well shit my first thought was "you can't pay me to click on this", and now I kinda want to.
EDIT:
> "That's ten ideas for how you would kill someone, Harry," Professor Quirrell said with a burp. "And you know why Harry's the most dangerous student in the classroom?"
> The class didn't answer because their teacher was a drunken psychopath and one of their classmates was just a psychopath.
Okay yep this is pretty great
> "I put my soul into the Pioneer Probe, Harry. I'm Pioneer Quirrell!"
This has the distinction of being possibly the only funny Pickle Rick riff I've seen _since the episode came out_.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand HPMOR. the humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical reader’s head. There's also Harry's rationalistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from 80s sci-fi literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. as a consequence people who dislike Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Harry's rationalistic action of snapping his fingers, which itself is a cryptic reference to Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Eliezer Yudkowsky's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them :).
And yes, by the way, I DO own physical copies of Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest. And no, you cannot see them. They're for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid
…this is just a hit piece on Eliezer Yudkowsky, isn’t it.
HOLY SHIT PROFESSOR, ARE WE IN SPACE?” Harry said.
“Nah, it’s just like… a video but in three dee,” Quirrell said. “It’s like Star Wars or some shit.”
It was so beautiful. Tears came to Harry’s eyes. The words of a Carl Sagan documentary or a NDT tweet came into his mind.
“Wow, Professor, this is so wonderful and cool,” Harry said. “How did you do it?”
“I put my soul into the Pioneer Probe, Harry. I’m Pioneer Quirrell!”
Literally lol’ed.
this story is nearly as good as Harry Potter Becomes A Communist
Harry began to cry. He couldn’t help it. His mentor was sneering at him.
This formatting is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake
This was already posted here i think?