I’d be surprised if Yudkowsky has read Sartre. But it’s a natural thing to do. Harry Potter is (unfortunately) the closest thing we have to a national epic we have these days… well, an Anglosphere epic, but you get the idea.
If this is the sort of thing you’re interested in, you might want to read Benedict Anderson’s book Imagined Communities.
I’d be surprised if Yudkowsky has read Sartre. But it’s a natural thing to do. Harry Potter is (unfortunately) the closest thing we have to a national epic we have these days… well, an Anglosphere epic, but you get the idea.
If this is the sort of thing you’re interested in, you might want to read Benedict Anderson’s book Imagined Communities.