Written by an AI researcher, the book explores HP as if he was a very rational and intelligent agent, rather than someone who immediately accepts all aspects of magic.
It’s not just interesting, but includes real theories of rationality that made me consider how I immediately accept many things myself.
Give this book 5 minutes of time at [0] where it is released. It's a great story and drives home a lot of points about cognitive biases. I found out about this book here on HN when it was being released as a web serial. I had never read any Harry Potter books before this but I immediately got sucked in. One of my favorite books.
Elizier Yudkowsky is just a really good author. can’t speak for HPMOR, but i love his other series, The Sequences, which per my understanding communicates the same ideas via more succinct, nonfiction writing.
