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Thinking back to when "the original Yudkowsky" needs a content warning for sexual assault.
I think HPMOR also still needs a content warning for talking about sexual assault. Weird how that is a pattern.
OK, so, Yud poured a lot of himself into writing HPMoR. It took time, he obviously believed he was doing something important — and he was writing autobiography, in big ways and small. This leads me to wonder: Has he said anything about Rowling, you know, turning out to be a garbage human?
A quick xcancel search (which is about all the effort I am willing to expend on this at the moment) found nothing relevant, but it did turn up this from Yud in 2018:
Yea verily, the book understander has logged on.
Another thing I turned up and that I need to post here so I can close that browser tab and expunge the stain from my being: Yud's advice about awesome characters.
The important thing for any writer is to never challenge oneself. The Path of Least Resistance(TM)!
What is the superlative of "read a second book"?
"My imagination has not yet descended."
In college, I wrote a sonnet to a young woman in the afternoon and joined her in a threesome that night.
Holding fast through the pain induced by the rank superficiality, we might just find a lesson here. Many fans of Harry Potter have had to cope, in their own personal ways, with the stories aging badly or becoming difficult to enjoy. But nothing that Rowling does can perturb Yudkowsky, because he held the stories in contempt all along.