Eneasz Brodsky

Maybe I was too quick to dismiss entirely, even though of course the whole God existing thing is bullshit and has done a lot of harm.

That is why it's good that we do have all these retellings of the Bible in different forms, like the Truman Show or HPMOR or Lord of the Rings, because then we can get the good stories, the good lessons from them without being tied to all the bullshit.

There's a lot of skill involved in managing to figure out how to go viral.

So I'm really curious now.

Yeah, I see what you're saying.

Okay.

Well, I think...

I think it won the memetic contest before it got corrupted.

Anyways, that is, yeah, I think it's right in the side.

Yeah, something to dig into at a later time, which actually William could probably help us with because he is a history blogger.

That is the majority of what he was doing at Inkhaven.

Nice.

Yeah.

And that is also why he was so into Joan of Arc.

awesome i haven't actually read that review i just saw it and i i'm sure i have it bookmarked somewhere but i'll have to actually read it it sounds it sounds delightful uh okay so i guess um to wrap up and summarize the two things that this essay points out that are the core of why what harry potter methods of rationality is and why it's so good is that it

identifies and absolutely speaks to the core rationalist experience of being isolated in a crazy world and wanting to have something that we can trust and put our faith into and and then using that as morality tale to say no actually you can't don't do that that is a bad thing to want uh you should want to have peers instead and this is what happens when you

When you fall into the seduction of trusting something higher than yourself.

And then that is portrayed through a long siege of the soul across the entirety of the book as Harry is making up for trusting the wrong person, even though he loved him so much, which I also did.

god i loved quarrel so much it was so good it was absolutely the wish that i wanted granted but then there is a long siege of the soul uh about the uh evil of quarrel and what he has offered harry versus the good of hermione who is the peer that is the thing that we are supposed to want in rationality rather than someone to trust a uh some we should want someone else to co-work with and try to resolve the problems of the world the long hard way yeah

And that was a long time coming.