HPMOR presents a protagonist who has a brain which is 90% that of a merely very smart child, but which is 10% filled with cached thought patterns taken directly from a smarter, more experienced adult. Part of the internal tension of Harry is between the un-integrated Dark Side thoughts and the rest of his brain.
Ironic then, that the effect that reading HPMOR—and indeed a lot of Yudkowsky’s work—was to imprint a bunch of un-integrated alien thought patterns onto my existing merely very smart brain. A lot of my development over the past few years has just been trying to integrate these things properly with the rest of my mind.
Fair enough, done. This felt vaguely like tagging spoilers for Macbeth or the Bible, but then I remembered how annoyed I was to have Of Mice And Men spoiled for me at age fifteen.
Spoilers (I guess?) for HPMOR
HPMOR presents a protagonist who has a brain which is 90% that of a merely very smart child, but which is 10% filled with cached thought patterns taken directly from a smarter, more experienced adult. Part of the internal tension of Harry is between the un-integrated Dark Side thoughts and the rest of his brain.
Ironic then, that the effect that reading HPMOR—and indeed a lot of Yudkowsky’s work—was to imprint a bunch of un-integrated alien thought patterns onto my existing merely very smart brain. A lot of my development over the past few years has just been trying to integrate these things properly with the rest of my mind.
You might want to note that these are spoilers for HP:MoR.
Fair enough, done. This felt vaguely like tagging spoilers for Macbeth or the Bible, but then I remembered how annoyed I was to have Of Mice And Men spoiled for me at age fifteen.
There’s always new people coming through, and I don’t want to spoil the mysteries for them!