I haven’t watched it. I don’t know how well she will cover the subject or how deep the rabbit hole she will venture.
All I know is she’s delightful and I sure as hell won’t read that bilge myself, so I’m looking forward to an entertaining summary.
Edit: I watched it. I had a good time.
Honestly the most surprising part was when she went “of course we know fanfiction can be used for cult indoctrination, ever since that other cult did it”
I skipped that episode because it seemed boring, but now I might come back to it.
There’s just something so … basic about HPMOR. Oh, so you wrote a Harry Potter story? Targeted at emotionally vulnerable neurodivergent young people? That’s playing fanfiction on easy mode. Meanwhile, people are out there inventing a whole sui generis fandom about humanity being force-femmed by communist space plants. I don’t understand it, but (stirring brass band) by Gad, I respect it.
First impression: queer (and therefore better) take on whatever Cybersmith was on about(??)
Im contractually obligated to say ‘ow god no, not the human pet guy’.
You would be amazed how often this comes up. Anyway, dont sign AI generated contracts.
One erratum: the review that goes into how HPMOR’s science is bad was by “su3su2u1”, not Dan Luu (who just archived it from the original Tumblr).
Sorry, when she started taking Yud’s claims to be a “renowned AI researcher” at face value, I noped out.
It is technically correct to call Yud a “renowned AI researcher”, but saying someone’s renowned in a pseudoscience such as AI is hardly singing their praises.
He’s a renowned AI researcher in the same way as Andrew Wakefield is a renowned doctor.
Herostraticly renowned.
https://awful.systems/comment/6765016 also discussed here
