I’ll admit to liking this many yonks ago, but as the author has gotten more crazy and fallen down his rabbit holes I’ve moved away from it. Also realizing it’s kind of pap.
The one where Harry is a dragon for no reason is much better. It has Ron in a squirrel shaped spacesuit. Go read that one.
Wait what?? I have no idea where you're coming from. I thought it was cool? That he was like deconstructing magic?? Wasn't it just that?? What am I missing?
I’m only partially joking, because like, this stupid fan fiction can be loosely traced to Sam Bankman Fried, Peter Thiel, Project 2025, and Elon Musk meeting Grimes.
I came across these nrxn goofballs like fifteen years ago and got about five pages into moldbug's blog and went "wait a sec, these guys are just nazis!" and WELP I WAS RIGHT
The depressingly funny part about this is that halfway through it the entire message of the story does a 180 pivot as Big Yud apparently had the epiphany of "being nice to people is good, actually".
Would've been nice if the rest of his sphere took that on board.
Twenty years ago, some nerd wrote a fan fiction in which Harry Potter was an asshole of an atheist, and it proceeded to fry everyone's brains in Silicon Valley.
Like, I'm not joking when I say this stupid fucking fan fiction can be traced back to Peter Thiel, Sam Bankman Fried, and Project 2025, among many other things.
I'm so out of touch. I knew nothing about it until a month ago, when I read an article about some of the nutbags further down the chain who got all murder-y.
One of the few actual intelligent things I've ever heard said about the Singularity is that it already happened in 1977, when the Limited Liability Company was invented.
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The one where Harry is a dragon for no reason is much better. It has Ron in a squirrel shaped spacesuit. Go read that one.
Silicon Valley is a WEIRD place, lol
It’s just a wild domino effect, lol
Would've been nice if the rest of his sphere took that on board.
It's one of those things where truth is stranger than fiction.
I despise how they constantly invent new, atheist ways to just be regressive calvinists.
Never, not in my wildest imagination, would I have imagined it would have spiraled into THIS.
Make no mistake- this isn't like a religion with moderate or extreme sects and such, the core of so-called rationalism is rotten and bleak.
I feel bad for innocent people caught up in it.