James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/09/2026I do think anyone who wants us to take Elizer Yudkowsky seriously as an authority on AI armageddon should be forced to testify on video that they have read the entirety of his 660,000 word rationalist Harry Potter fan fiction – written aged 30–34 – and still thinks the world needs his take. 32723121
Resistance Patton she/her/hers @redpenmamapgh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I read the wikipedia entry about it and i would like my 3 minutes back please 040
Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026bsky.app/profile/ogki...Ben Evans@ogkittylyst.bsky.socialAs we seem to have to talk about the author of the awful Harry Potter fanfic & his works, consider this: The hallowed genius was so smart that he portrayed Hermione's UK family as super-wealthy with a huge house, b/c both of her parents were dentists That is his level of understanding of the world 020
jasminevp.bsky.social @jasminevp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I have read it! It’s not bad for a fanfic. And if you can’t base your new social order on somebody’s hobby writing riffs on other people’s original work for the entertainment of the kind of fans who put the “atic” in “fan,” what can you base it on? Social and political science, or something? 010
Paul Watson 🌍 @paulmwatson.com · 16/09/2026HE WROTE IT IN HIS THIRTIES OMG! I was laughing along at the silliness of it all thinking it was some 20 something dumbass, green and yet to have much experience in the world... but THIRTIES!static.klipy.comCreed from The Office: I'm ThirtyAlt: Creed from The Office: I'm Thirty 030
Chris Wagner @chriswagner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Too long won't read. I just assume it's about Ayn Rand being Slytherin. 120
QuixoticMage @quixoticmage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Worth noting that the fanfic is still ranked top 5 on fanfiction.net out of around 850k works, and that presumably happened before it moved to its own site. It's definitely not for everyone would but lots of people enjoyed it. Honestly, I think EY's takes have gone down hill since then 010
Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Agreed. Interviewed him for our BBC Radio 4 40 Years of The Terminator Doc to see whether it influenced current existential risk thinking. Was surprised when he denied he'd ever said we should be willing to bomb data centres. I read out the quotes from his Time Magazine open letter. Weird moment... 3485
alglaz.bsky.social @alglaz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Aged what? That motherfucker is pushing 50 now?! 010
Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 16/09/2026We are weirdly living in the world of the LessWrong/SlateStarCodex/TPOT weirdos 3270
department of polemical efficiency __ D.O.P.E. @b-mlln.bsky.social · 16/09/2026already a classic samkriss.substack.com/p/against-tr...samkriss.substack.comAgainst truthAlso against rationalism, utilitarianism, AI, and Eliezer Yudkowsky in particular 100
Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I think I might choose to not chase him seriously and spend my time paying attention to the Arizona Fall League. 000
Andrew West @awest.uk · 16/09/2026HPMOR seems to have been pretty effective in getting people interested in AI safety early. Scott Alexander: 210
Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026the one time I'm happy to be preemptively blocked by someone on social media 020
James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/09/2026There is an extract of the writing in this podcast segment, for those who want to hear my appalled cohost @lucyreade.bsky.social discover it in real time.James Ball@jamesrball.comIn this week's episode of Touching Grass I explain the connection between Aella – the sex blogger behind the infamous Sankey chart – and the latest global headlines about whether AI will kill us all. Because, oh boy, the connection is real.podcasts.apple.comAella, and why BookTok has changed how people readPodcast Episode · Touching Grass · 15 September · 47min 3473
A Zucker for Art @azuckerforart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is a name I'm just seeing now, and while I'm very curious to feel informed on this trending discourse, I similarly have no desire to learn about this individual. 000
RadioKate @radiokate.com · 17/09/2026Wait, he wrote what?! I met him in 2009(?) and was quite certain that while he had a point that oversight on some tech stuff was needed, he was not the right person to save humanity, despite his conviction he was perhaps the only one who could. 010
Auntie Ketzirah @devotaj.com · 16/09/2026why does writing fan fiction disqualify someone from being credible on other subjects? It's a creative outlet. 410
Doubting Apostle @doubtingapostle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The world does not need his take on AI, but I liked his fan fiction. 040
⏱📋David Steinberg⏱📋 @zzyzx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The problem with his story is less that it's Harry Potter and more that he made a lot of assumptions in it designed solely to let his self insert character be smug. "What if I change all of the rules of the universe and only my one character knows that they're different?" 160
pj-evans.bsky.social @pj-evans.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I couldn't get through the first couple of pages. 000
James Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Something entertaining about those less online than me having to get their heads around LessWrong, SlateStarCodex etc. I bet RationalWiki is getting a traffic spike. 020
Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Great philosophers have written fiction to be fair, question is what sets No Exit or The Stranger apart from HPATMOR 020
Paul Peters @pdbqp.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026Confirmed: bengoertzel.substack.com/p/jacob-coxo...bengoertzel.substack.comJacob Coxon and the Effective-Altruism Media-Hacking PlaybookUnraveling the actual story behind this “Anthropic coder quits in alarm over X-risk” drama... 000
Iain Bancarz 🇨🇦 @iainrb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'd heard of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality when it first came out, and vaguely assumed it was a short parody/homage of 60,000 words or so. But 10 times that big? That's going for the all-time championship of Needs To Get A Life. 🫠 010
Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 16/09/2026yeah i read his ai armageddon book and wasn't impressed. it was basically a lot of IF THIS HAPPENS.... when the THIS is incredibly unlikely. worst anti-ai book i've read, and i'm highly opposed to it. 160
Lunammoon @lunammoon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I actually think having read all 600,000+ words should disqualify you on principle 120