On May 6, 11:57*pm, (David Goldfarb) wrote:
In article ,
Michael Grosberg wrote:

Strangely, this is the second "Less Wrong" article I ran into in the
last hour. The first was a piece of supposed Harry Potter fan fiction
(I think it's just using the HP-verse to explore some argument in
narrative form) I ran into in the comment section in Charles Stross'
blog.

No, your parenthesis is quite wrong. *Yudkowsky is doing nothing less
than rewriting _Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone_ from top
to bottom, changing things so that they're more pleasing to him.

I'm working my way through it now.It's brilliant - yesterday it kept
me awake up until 2:00 AM. The reason I'm wary of calling it fan is
fiction because of the "fan" part of fan fiction, not because it
wasn't proper fiction. Yudkowsky takes everything the readers of HP
(and Rowling herself) hold dear, and smashes it to little pieces, sets
it on fire, then stomps on the remains, singing a happy tune all the
while. I love it, but then I'm not a Rowling fan, only read that first
book and didn;t like it much.