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It's commonly thought (and obvious) that Yud wrote the book about himself so I doubt it. It doesn't really fit the rationalist playbook either, they take thems
by operatingthetan 4y ago
It's commonly thought (and obvious) that Yud wrote the book about himself so I doubt it. It doesn't really fit the rationalist playbook either, they take themselves excessively seriously.
- SamReidHughes 4y agoThe character's author-insert aspects are self-parody.
- operatingthetan 4y agoHe's too fragile and prone to overcompensation for that, nice try. Of course he's going to back track after getting mercilessly mocked for it and then claim it was just a joke.
- AgentME 4y agoThe first few chapters have a song scene parodying ghostbusters and a joke about the protagonist biting a teacher in a tantrum as a young kid. There's plenty of elements of crackfic parody in it.
- davidgerard 4y ago> a joke about the protagonist biting a teacher in a tantrum as a young kid. wasn't that literally Yudkowsky, tho
- AgentME 4y agoNot disagreeing that Harry in the story is an author self-insert, just with that it's a fully self-serious non-parody one.