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Avada Kedavra – Humanity’s Last Prompt (First Order Logic H.P. Fanfiction) (philpapers.org)

submitted 3 days ago by blue_berry@lemmy.world to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

it’s Potter, not Lovecraft. More power to ’em, but I wish it were not in that notable transphobe’s world

Agreed, but Lovecraft is at least as problematical.

[–] Alcyonaria@piefed.world 4 points 3 days ago

After reading his later letters I strongly disagree. He was a paranoid xenophobe but he's nowhere as malicious.

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

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.