I don't want to speak for GP, but I doubt it's coincidental. Many if not most people's first exposure to "rationalism" was via Yudkowsky's Harry Potter fanfic.

I don't want to speak for GP, but I doubt it's coincidental. Many if not most people's first exposure to "rationalism" was via Yudkowsky's Harry Potter fanfic. There's a pretty decent rundown of rationalism's history in Extropia's Children [1]. [1] https://aiascendant.substack.com/p/extropias-children-chapter-1-the-wunderkind https://aiascendant.substack.com/p/extropias-children-chapte...