The fic where billionaires are Mary Sues

On this week's episode, Vee invites Emily to explore the confounding and deeply upsetting world of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which has wedged its way into some of the most fraught political and sociological discussions of our day. Beware, listeners: the dementors are here, and they all use ChatGPT. 

Topics include: Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI, rationality 

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Sources from today's ep:

• Do Not Interact on Fanlore
• More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
• The Harry Potter Fan Fiction Author Who Wants to Make Everyone a Little More Rational by David Whelan
• 'Harry Potter' and the Key to Immortality by Daniel D. Snyder
• The Harry Potter Fanfic Behind Silicon Valley’s Weirdest Philosophical Movement by Alexandra Ciufudean
• A quick-informal post on - Yudkowsky's Harry Potter! by David Brin
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is complete, and it is excellent by Will Baude
• Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse by Ian K. Duncan
• ‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute by Andrew Anthony
• Mind the Tags fanfic survey
• Emily's expressions during the episode

Thank you to Erik Potteiger for producing our song and Haflacky for our logo design.