ProjectLawful.com: Eliezer's latest story, past 1M words — LessWrong
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So if you read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, and thought... …

“glowfic” apparently. written in a roleplay forum format.

This is not a story for kids, even less so than HPMOR. There is romance, there is sex, there are deliberately bad kink practices whose explicit purpose is to get people to actually hurt somebody else so that they’ll end up damned to Hell, and also there’s math.

start here. or don’t, of course.

    • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
      14·
      11 months ago

      tvtropes

      The reason Keltham wants to have two dozen wives and 144 children, is that he knows Civilization doesn’t think someone with his psychological profile is worth much to them, and he wants to prove otherwise. What makes having that many children a particularly forceful argument is that he knows Civilization won’t subsidize him to have children, as they would if they thought his neurotype was worth replicating. By succeeding far beyond anyone’s wildest expectations in spite of that, he’d be proving they were not just mistaken about how valuable selfishness is, but so mistaken that they need to drastically reevaluate what they thought they knew about the world, because obviously several things were wrong if it led them to such a terrible prediction.

      huh

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      The case for turning glowfic into Sequences

      Eliezer stopped writing Sequences and probably cannot write more. This is a combination of Eliezer’s chronic fatigue syndrome and being tired of trolls / bad takes in comments. The only medium he can write in without being drained is glowfic. Thus, even though it’s a non-serious format, glowfic is Eliezer’s main intellectual output right now.

      what your donations of ETH buy

      If Eliezer can’t write nonfiction because of trolls and bad takes, won’t turning glowfic into Sequences just make him stop writing glowfic?
      No, I asked him.

      • blakestacey@awful.systemsMEnglish
        13·
        11 months ago

        A free full-cast Audiobook of Planecrash is currently in production [,.] using AI-generated voices.

        maybe we, as a species, deserve what is coming to us

      • Evinceo@awful.systemsEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        many people I know who got more from HPMOR read it carefully, perhaps stopping after every chapter to think about the goals and motivations of each character and predict what happens next

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      Reading a bit of this page convinced me to never read this Isekai into hell story from Yud. It isn’t even that im against edgy hell themed stories I mean Dante Alighieri did it well, and the planescape setting in dnd is not bad imho (it does have the same devils/demons split as this story so very original Yud). But the rest reads just as tiringly ‘Lesswrong nerd out rationalizes DnD rules’. Using a specifically crafted sentence in a wish spell to get antimatter bombs to destroy a fort which protects the ‘makes you a god/kills gods’ stone.

      (I don’t mind people who do enjoy it btw, it just screams very not for me)

      • Deborah@hachyderm.io
        9·
        11 months ago

        yesterday I learned that there’s only 3 AO3 fics for Steven Brust and Emma Bull’s gorgeous Freedom and Necessity and I almost wept because there’s no way I’m going to brush up on Hegel enough to write it, but it needs to exist. And good lord Eliezer could learn a thing or two about writing philosophically-driven but-actually-good fiction from that novel.

        Anyway, read Freedom and Necessity, kids.

        Also the Amelia Peabody books, of course.

    • jonhendry@awful.systemsEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Going by the illustration of characters at the top of that page, “Kelthar” is a dead ringer for 80s Phil Oakey.