Eliezer Yudkowsky
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| Name: | Eliezer Yudkowsky |
| Alias(es): | Less Wrong |
| Type: | fic writer |
| Fandoms: | Harry Potter |
| Communities: | Rational Fic |
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| URL: | Less-Wrong at FFN EliezerYudkowsky at Reddit http://yudkowsky.net/ |
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Eliezer Yudkowsky is the author of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, a well-known and controversial Harry Potter AU that was published from 2010 - 2015.[1] The work is criticized sometimes with people wondering "[this fic bait for a cult]?" owing to his strong support of his causes at the Singularity Institute[2] and others; it continues to be used to convince people of Effective Altruism[3] such as in this blogpost in 2022 where the author argues:
The theory of change behind sending the books to winners of olympiads is that people with high potential read HPMOR and share it with friends, get some EA-adjacent mindset and values from it, and then get introduced to EA in emails about 80k Hours (which is being translated into Russian[2]) and other EA and cause-specific content, and start participating in the EA community and get more into specific cause areas that interest them
He also writes for Less Wrong, a "community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality." Some parts of "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" cover similar topics to his writing on Less Wrong.
Other Fannish Activities
Outside of the Harry Potter fandom, he wrote short fanfictions for Lord of the Rings, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Naruto, which were included in some of the bonus ('omake') chapters of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.[5]
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External Links
References
- ^ Eliezer Yudkowsky on Wikipedia. Accessed on July 30, 2018.
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Intelligence_Research_Institute
- ^ Website for EA, Wikipedia article
- ^ https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/AmA9gQMhqAQW8bC4W/i-have-thousands-of-copies-of-hpmor-in-russian-how-to-use
- ^ https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/64