The idea of promoting Less Wrong (and rationality in general) via Harry Potter fanfiction is so outside the box that I really shouldn’t be surprised that it exists! What a great way to tap into a particular group of people that may not have necessarily found their way here otherwise. I wonder if we’ll get any users to come out of the woodwork and say they’ve found LW through the fanfic?
I hope we see more projects like this (from anybody here) in the future!
wave Hello! Brand new, just discovered the site through the fanfic, and still in the looking-around stage… but yes, it does work.
It definitely helps that it is totally frelling awesome fanfic. Admittedly, I’m biased; I’m writing a Potter live-action role-playing game one of whose goals is to figure out how the heck that tacked-together universe could possibly make sense, and what would explain the observed evidence… ;)
Welcome! Please feel free to join in the discussion. There’s been a concerted effort here to make this place much less intimidating. Of course, once you spend some time reading Less Wrong, you’re going to find your other hangouts woefully inadequate. ;-)
The idea of promoting Less Wrong (and rationality in general) via Harry Potter fanfiction is so outside the box that I really shouldn’t be surprised that it exists! What a great way to tap into a particular group of people that may not have necessarily found their way here otherwise. I wonder if we’ll get any users to come out of the woodwork and say they’ve found LW through the fanfic?
I hope we see more projects like this (from anybody here) in the future!
wave Hello! Brand new, just discovered the site through the fanfic, and still in the looking-around stage… but yes, it does work.
It definitely helps that it is totally frelling awesome fanfic. Admittedly, I’m biased; I’m writing a Potter live-action role-playing game one of whose goals is to figure out how the heck that tacked-together universe could possibly make sense, and what would explain the observed evidence… ;)
Welcome! Please feel free to join in the discussion. There’s been a concerted effort here to make this place much less intimidating. Of course, once you spend some time reading Less Wrong, you’re going to find your other hangouts woefully inadequate. ;-)
It’s already happened—I don’t have a link, but I’ve seen at least one comment to that effect.
I can also report that I have at least two friends who started reading the sequences after encountering HPMR.