Prequel and Sequel to "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", bridging first into a medieval setting in which the magic system works like incremental programming and then into the present day, in which it works like logical programming. Philosophically, the medieval setting is post-modernism and the present day is analytic philosophy, while HPATMOR is enlightenment rationalism. It's a bit like a digital Alice in wonderland.
Avada Kedavra – Humanity’s Last Prompt (First Order Logic H.P. Fanfiction)
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10 Comments
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 344d
Got all excited when I saw HP, but it’s Potter, not Lovecraft. More power to ’em, but I wish it were not in that notable transphobe’s world. Thinking of all the other sci-fi that goes from fantasy to modern to sci-fi … Zahn’s Spinneret, Stross’ “Merchant Princes TNG”, etc.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 344d
Agreed, but Lovecraft is at least as problematical.
Alcyonaria@piefed.world · 4 pts · 344d
After reading his later letters I strongly disagree. He was a paranoid xenophobe but he's nowhere as malicious.
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 344d
Oh gods yes. His shadow looms large over the mythos. Thankfully there’s been stuff like Winter Tide, but we also don’t have HPL doing interviews for the papers or on TV - we can reckon with who he was. She keeps making it more problematic.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de · 0 pts · 344d
Haven't we been saying to put Hatsune Miku to work on prying this from that crone's grasp for years now?
Scallops@ttrpg.network · 3 pts · 343d
Science fiction AF /s
blue_berry@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 343d
What's not science fiction about it?
Scallops@ttrpg.network · 2 pts · 342d
What is?
blue_berry@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 322d
Wizards are just having a special gene like in X-Men, muggles try to mimick "magic" by creating machines with which to alter reality.
the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 290d
The Methods of Rationality was a very good read. I recommend it for anyone who wishes Harry Potter was written by someone else.