This was a great read when I was an edgy 14 year old, now it's just kinda cringe. It introduced me to rationalism, and appealed to the transhumanist streak in

This was a great read when I was an edgy 14 year old, now it's just kinda cringe. It introduced me to rationalism, and appealed to the transhumanist streak in me, which is cool. But rationalists in my local area are kinda culty. They all live together and think similarly and have similar practices, very strange. The fundamental failing with HPMOR and rationalism in general (as I have seen it) is the assumption that we can meaningfully apply Bayesian logic on-the-fly. We as humans simply are not equipped to compute the probability or utility of choices on the fly, for any decision that would be nontrivial.