• @hrrrngh
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    93 months ago

    Chiming in with my own find!

    https://archiveofourown.org/works/38590803/chapters/96467457

    I’ve seen this person around a lot with crazy takes on AI. They have a couple quotes that might inflict psychic damage:

    If I had the skill to pull it off, a Buddhist cultivation book would’ve thus been the single most rationalist xianxia in existence.

    My acquaintance asks for rational-adjacent books suitable for 8-11 years old children that heavily feature training, self-improvement, etc. The acquaintance specifically asks that said hard work is not merely mentioned, but rather is actively shown in the story. The kid herself mostly wants stories “about magic” and with protagonists of about her age.

    They had a long diatribe I don’t have a copy of, but they were gloating about having masterful writing despite not reading any books besides non-fiction and HPMoR, their favorite book of all time.

    There’s also a whole subreddit from hell about this subgenre of fiction: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/

    • @mountainriver
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      63 months ago

      The kid herself mostly wants stories “about magic” and with protagonists of about her age.

      The horror! What if she grows up reading books she actually likes? She might be developing her mind in ways not approved by her parents!

    • David GerardOPMA
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      63 months ago

      welcome to sneerclub! here’s your accordion

    • @scruiser
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      43 months ago

      There’s also a whole subreddit from hell about this subgenre of fiction: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/

      /r/rational isn’t just for AI fiction, it also claims includes anything with decent verisimilitude, so stuff like The Hatchet and The Martian show up in its recommendation lists also! letting it claim credit for better fiction than the AI stuff