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Originally Posted by JoeP

LessWrong rang a bell, and it turns out it was started by Eliezer Yudkowsky who has been referenced a few times on .

RationalWiki is less than charitable about him. I have not checked whether RationalWiki deserves any attention.

I liked the first few chapters of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, they were cute, but it got really tedious and fundamentally misunderstood some of the characters.

I'm not surprised that this person is the source.