Notes For Chapter 77
Update 9/19: Epic poster of HPMOR by Zerinity, done by request. Update 9/22: New Omake in Ch. 64, for “My Little Pony: Friendship is Science”. Update 11/17: Been busy with a variety of RL stuff,...
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I’ll update fan art along with the next chapter – I just don’t have time to do it right now. News #1: I’ve moved to Berkeley, a big change from commuting between Redwood City and Berkeley like for the...
View ArticleAuthor’s Notes, Ch. 79
Contents of this A/N: About the writing; Shannon Friedman is starting up her counseling business; the Quixey programming challenge; P/S/A about programming careers; and the long-awaited fan-art...
View ArticleAuthor’s Notes, Ch. 80
The Center for Modern Rationality is still looking for applications from excellent teachers (especially those who’ve been quietly experimenting on their own with better teaching methods, or those...
View ArticleAuthor’s Notes, Ch. 81
Please do apply for paid consulting work at the Center for Modern Rationality, if you have abilities relevant to designing exercises to teach rationalist skills, or if you have run successful workshops...
View ArticleAuthor’s Notes, Ch. 82-83
Best comment on Ch. 81, by Hokuten Mage: ”When Harry Potter stares into the abyss, the abyss runs away and hides.” New fan art: Karen Dutton brings us that poor Dementor, HK66 (contact me with your...
View ArticleA Day of Very Low Probability
Every inch of wall space is covered by a bookcase. Each bookcase has six shelves, going almost to the ceiling. Some bookshelves are stacked to the brim with hardcover books: science, mathematics,...
View ArticleEverything I Believe Is False
“Now, just to be clear,” Harry said, “if the professor does levitate you, Dad, when you know you haven’t been attached to any wires, that’s going to be sufficient evidence. You’re not going to turn...
View ArticleComparing Reality To Its Alternatives
“Good Lord,” said the bartender, peering at Harry, “is this – can this be -?” Harry leaned forward toward the bar of the Leaky Cauldron as best he could, though it came up to somewhere around the tips...
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Author’s Notes, Ch. 85
“Thank you so much for writing this! My 12-year-old son used to say that he hated math, and now, after reading HPMOR for only 84 chapters he’s coming to me and asking me to explain Bayes’ Rule!” — KSVH...
View ArticleProgress Update: June 1st
So… my life has been rather hectic recently. There was a huge push to get the May Minicamp units done, and now we need as many more units again for the weeklong July minicamp. (On the plus side, the...
View ArticleProgress Update: July 1st
(This was supposed to post automatically. It did not. I apologize for that.) Real life still slaying me. I did manage to put out the new, British English versions of Ch. 1-17, with significant...
View ArticleProgress Update: August 1st
2000 words into Ch. 86. I literally got to spend time on HPMOR for only two days out of the month of July, so that’s not too bad. With any luck, things will regularize for me after SPARC concludes in...
View ArticleProgress Report: September 1st
6,660 words into Ch. 86. Again, I hope things regularize now that I’m going back to my main SIAI job rather than doing CFAR work (I still didn’t have much chance to work on HPMOR in August per se)....
View ArticleProgress Report: October 1st
15,000 words and two more scenes into Ch. 86, one scene left to go after the current one, and then it’ll be on to Ch. 87. Further chapters will be shorter and less dialogue-y, I dearly hope (action...
View ArticleProgress Report: November 1st
18,000 words into Ch. 86, still one scene left to go. I’m behind on my LessWrong.com posting schedule so basically got no chance at at all to work on HPMOR this month, and I don’t know if next month...
View ArticleProgress Report: Dec 1st
This Report won’t be long, since I spent all day working on HPMOR instead of composing the Progress Report. 22,000 words into Ch. 86 which is proving incredibly difficult. The True version of Ch. 85,...
View ArticleAuthor’s Notes, Ch. 86
Manifest for this Author’s Note: Writing notes. Update on the Center for Applied Rationality. Massive combined fan-art update. Writing notes: 85: The new revised version of Ch. 85 is something I could...
View ArticleAuthor’s Notes: Ch. 87
Manifest: Writing notes for Ch. 87 Further notes on Ch. 86 Update on the Singularity Institute Miscellaneous notes Fanfiction recommendations Writing notes for Ch. 87: Come on, you knew Harry was going...
View ArticleProgress Report: Feb 1st, 2013
Currently 3,300 words into Ch. 88. I suspect I won’t have any exciting numbers to report here until I get another chance to work on HPMOR for a solid week or two. Still, it’s further along than I was...
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