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WSCFriedman gets to the core of what HPMOR is ACTUALLY about, and finally pinpoints why we love it so much, in his essay Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality Is A Disney Movie About A Serial Killer.
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Audio version of HPMOR is A Disney Movie About A Serial Killer, from AskWho
William’s blog, “As Our Days”
ACX Non-Book Review 2025 Winners Post
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Why the AI Water Issue Has Nothing to Do With Water (and audio version here, again from AskWho)
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HPMOR is clearly about AGI.
And Harry Potter-Evans-Verres (HPEV) is the name of the AGI.
Chapter 1:
Petunia says her sister refused to help her due to strangers claiming in prophecy “the world would end” if harry potter-evans-verres came to exist.
And as you stated in this podcast:
Voldemort expects HPEV to be aligned by default, since he is a copy of him, and therefore created in his image.
I just started this list, but on my next reading, I will
*I will continue finding fitting text passages.