The 'Some readers' example being Aella, and her admitting she is also a very slow reader made it just that much better. And then the various bluechecks admitting they are also now addicted to reading HPMOR.

If they are enjoying that, their second fiction book will be even better!

I'm reminded of a My Little Pony singularity fan-fiction (Friendship is Optimal) that I read back when I had poor taste. An AI for a pony MMORPG goes rogue and converts everyone into digital ponies to maximize happiness but with a pony theme. The victims live out impossibly long, but ultimately superficial, lives doing pony stuff and goodness gracious why is there such a weird relationship between rationalists and fanfiction writers.

He is right in a way that is was put more to the forefront under Musk, but that just makes him an options picking manager, not some visionary tech genius.

In the period when I didn't see the LW/SSC community as negatively as I do now I also noticed there were quite a few ~~ephebophiles~~pedophiles there, even had a long discussion with one who was being very cagey about it. It was weird. A well, as a cryptoneoreactionary said: 'if you build a place free of witchhunts, don't be surprised a lot of witches show up'. Liking Lolita (which isn't a bad book per se, it is great in the 'this is what lies pedos/bad people tell themselves/others to get away with it' unreliable narrator sense) is certainly a red flag, esp when people are not aware of the parenthesis (I have reach peak reference game, I now reference my own sentence from inside the sentence).

And I think a lot of fascination of the Harry Potter from inside the LW community is just age, for a lot of these people Harry Potter was an important series in their early teens, which is an important period in growing up for these kinds of things, it is also massively popular (I guess less so now due to Rowling deciding that transphobia is cheaper than going to therapy for her abusive ex). Of course this doesn't explain HPMOR in the first place as Yud is old (or at least older than the people I'm talking about, who would now be in their 30s max while Yud is in his 40s, I myself am also one of the 'grew up before HP olds btw, noticed that younger people I knew were very into HP (and some game where you capture wild animals and have them fight cagematches for you, weird shit forgot the name)').

And well I think SBF having orgies and being into polyam stuff is fine (and I wish those on everybody who wants them as long as everybody consents), I think the theft, fascism and all that is the problem. On that note, you clearly should only make yourself suffer more if you want to do that and enjoy it. But on some level I guess you do, as everybody here is a bit masochistic by staying here and reading this stuff. Her being all cryptofasc tradwife was weird, esp when Musk was going all in on 'see the left is evil because SBF donated to the democrats', but I guess if the rich technologists of the world would spend more time actually understanding how politics works they wouldn't be rich.

Edit: Apologies for the somewhat long and rambling reply, I think the coffee was too strong and im sliding back into stream of thought reddit posting habits.

my brain keeps seeing it as the stop button on a media player or VCR and wanting to click it so Yud stops typing

Lol typos, my bad. Will fix thanks!