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Title: FYI - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality = finished
Post by: jr2 on March 14, 2015, 07:51:56 pm
http://hpmor.com/

In case any of you put it down and had forgotten about it.
Title: Re: FYI - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality = finished
Post by: Bobboau on March 15, 2015, 05:04:57 am
actually been following it for a while, it's nuts how it wen't almost without update for a year, then got a year's worth of updates in two weeks.
Title: Re: FYI - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality = finished
Post by: Lorric on March 15, 2015, 12:49:26 pm
Never heard of it. But I'll stick it in my bookmarks.
Title: Re: FYI - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality = finished
Post by: jr2 on March 15, 2015, 03:06:33 pm
Fair Warning: Don't start reading it unless you can read all the way through in one sitting.  xD  It may just suck you in.
Title: Re: FYI - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality = finished
Post by: Lorric on March 21, 2015, 06:06:02 pm
Quote from: jr2 on March 15, 2015, 03:06:33 pm
Fair Warning: Don't start reading it unless you can read all the way through in one sitting.  xD  It may just suck you in.
Nearly 2,000 pages. I read Deathly Hallows in one sitting and that's only 607 pages and took 8 hours. So here's hoping it doesn't do to me what Dealthly Hallows did... :shaking: :D
Title: Re: FYI - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality = finished
Post by: karajorma on March 22, 2015, 09:16:37 pm
I'm a huge fan of it. It only took me this long to post because I decided to re-read it from the start again and didn't want to run into any spoilers.
Title: Re: FYI - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality = finished
Post by: jr2 on March 23, 2015, 07:01:36 am
Spoiler:
I love how the author said Hermione would come back as a unicorn and then actually (sort of) did it.
Title: Re: FYI - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality = finished
Post by: Bobboau on March 23, 2015, 12:02:07 pm
for those who do not know, this is by the same guy who wrote this (http://lesswrong.com/lw/y5/the_babyeating_aliens_18/)
Title: Re: FYI - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality = finished
Post by: Mars on March 24, 2015, 10:21:37 am
It was good but it needed an editor badly.
Title: Re: FYI - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality = finished
Post by: Mikes on May 20, 2015, 01:29:58 pm
So who else finished it yet and shall we open the discussion to spoilers? LOL :-)

Title: Re: FYI - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality = finished
Post by: Mars on May 20, 2015, 08:49:02 pm
Finished, the ending was moderately disappointing - less logically solvable and more scientifically iffy
Spoiler:
can you really use carbon nano-tubes as a garrote?
Title: Re: FYI - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality = finished
Post by: Herra Tohtori on May 21, 2015, 03:09:37 am
Quote from: Mars on May 20, 2015, 08:49:02 pm
Spoiler:
can you really use carbon nano-tubes as a garrote?

In short, yes. At least I think so.

Spoiler:
The idea was that a thin spider silk thread was looped around the relevant appendages, then transfigured into a thread of carbon nanotubes of equal thickness to the spider silk. Then, tension was applied to the whole loop, which pulled it through the appendage it was around. With sufficient tension, a thin filament with high tensile strength would definitely cut through flesh and bone. Just how much tension is required, I don't know, but based on the fact that it worked, I'd say it was sufficient.