Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

[Jasper]

FUCK YES HAHAHAA

That fills me with ridiculous joy

Also

SCIENTIST:  The zombie disease eliminates consciousness without changing the brain in any way.  We've been trying to understand how the disease is transmitted.  Our conclusion is that, since the disease attacks dual properties of ordinary matter, it must, itself, operate outside our universe.  We're dealing with an epiphenomenal virus.

GENERAL FRED:  Are you sure?

SCIENTIST:  As sure as we can be in the total absence of evidence.

[Cain]

Goddamnit Yudowsky, three fucking weeks.

These upcoming chapters better be amazing, or I will hunt down a motherfucker and teach him to see the truth in the world around him.  Whether he wants to or not.

[Jasper]

I know.  He's been pretty consistent up until now.  Maybe he's doing a big push to finish his rationality book.

[Cain]

I know his place of work is looking to hire someone for a new position (because I saw it advertised on his blog) and thought that, along with the book, may be a reason for the delay.  And that, given the note on which the last chapter finished, it will probably be a pretty big and important subplot coming up, which will require a certain level of attention.

But seriously, I need my fix, and soon.  I can't impersonate Professor Quirrell in a class of 10 year olds for forever to make up for not having the next chapter.

[Jasper]

Glad it's not just me.  I've started rereading old chapters to remind myself why I keep waiting.

[Requia ☣]

I know.  He's been pretty consistent up until now.  Maybe he's doing a big push to finish his rationality book.

He caved into requests that he not publish until a story arc is finished, he's probably working on a long arc.

[Jasper]

Oh well, I guess some people can't handle cliffhangers even for a week.  At least he hasn't lost interest.

[Cain]

Bwahaha!

Next chapter is up.  Unfortunately, Fanfiction.net is being buggy at my end and I'm finding I have to refresh everything several times to get any page to load.

[Kai]

SNAKES ARE SENTIENT?!?

[Jasper]

Awesome chapter!  I was wondering if Harry was a parselmouth in this one.

[Cain]

I am amazed that not a single person got the hint in Ch. 45. Or at least, if anyone did, they didn't review it. I thought I was being pretty blatant that time, guess I was wrong. Say, you know what I envy J. K. Rowling? I envy that she has the sort of readers where if she writes the initials R.A.B., people will pour through all her previous books looking for a character with those initials and solve the hint. 'Cuz I have been diligently embedding hints all through MoR. I bet that if you were to reread MoR and copy everything that looks like a hint into a separate document, and then look through all of the hints at once, you would, like, notice some stuff. Just sayin'.

LOL

Guess what I did just last week? 

[Kai]

I am amazed that not a single person got the hint in Ch. 45. Or at least, if anyone did, they didn't review it. I thought I was being pretty blatant that time, guess I was wrong. Say, you know what I envy J. K. Rowling? I envy that she has the sort of readers where if she writes the initials R.A.B., people will pour through all her previous books looking for a character with those initials and solve the hint. 'Cuz I have been diligently embedding hints all through MoR. I bet that if you were to reread MoR and copy everything that looks like a hint into a separate document, and then look through all of the hints at once, you would, like, notice some stuff. Just sayin'.

LOL

Guess what I did just last week? 

And what did you discover?

[Cain]

Nothing definite, I'm half certain I'm imposing my own thoughts on off the cuff comments and phrases.  I was sure Harry being a Parselmouth was foreshadowed earlier on somewhere though...to be honest, I'd need to check the textfile again.

[Kai]

Nothing definite, I'm half certain I'm imposing my own thoughts on off the cuff comments and phrases.  I was sure Harry being a Parselmouth was foreshadowed earlier on somewhere though...to be honest, I'd need to check the textfile again.

It was foreshadowed at the very beginning of the first day at Hogwarts, when the snake from the Chamber of Secrets gave that message to Harry.

[Cain]

Oh, yes, so it was.  See, this is why I need to read it again.