Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

About the Book

This book is generated from the source material at http://hpmor.com/. Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote this fanfiction and owns the copyright, I only generated it from the site because I wanted to read the latest chapter on my Kindle and the site wasn't updated. It has been generated with the author's permission.

It is released here free of charge for convenience, and the goal is to have a place for interested readers to be sent electronic versions of the book automatically on each chapter release.

About the Editors

Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky is Research Fellow and Director of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a non–profit research institute dedicated to increasing the likelihood of, and decreasing the time to, a maximally beneficial singularity. He is one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, and frequently speaks on artificial general intelligence (AGI), rationality, and the future.

Stavros Korokithakis
Stavros Korokithakis

I'm Stavros, I'm a software developer with a fondness for Python and teaching it to people, and for making products people will want to use.

I am Greek, and currently live somewhere between Greece and London.

I founded a company called Stochastic Technologies, it's a software development agency which has also launched a few applications people enjoy.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1: A Day of Very Low Probability
  • Chapter 2: Everything I Believe Is False
  • Chapter 3: Comparing Reality To Its Alternatives
  • Chapter 4: The Efficient Market Hypothesis
  • Chapter 5: The Fundamental Attribution Error
  • Chapter 6: The Planning Fallacy
  • Chapter 7: Reciprocation
  • Chapter 8: Positive Bias
  • Chapter 9: Title Redacted, Part I
  • Chapter 10: Self Awareness, Part II
  • Chapter 11: Omake Files 1, 2, 3
  • Chapter 12: Impulse Control
  • Chapter 13: Asking the Wrong Questions
  • Chapter 14: The Unknown and the Unknowable
  • Chapter 15: Conscientiousness
  • Chapter 16: Lateral Thinking
  • Chapter 17: Locating the Hypothesis
  • Chapter 18: Dominance Hierarchies
  • Chapter 19: Delayed Gratification
  • Chapter 20: Bayes’s Theorem
  • Chapter 21: Rationalization
  • Chapter 22: The Scientific Method
  • Chapter 23: Belief in Belief
  • Chapter 24: Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis
  • Chapter 25: Hold Off on Proposing Solutions
  • Chapter 26: Noticing Confusion
  • Chapter 27: Empathy
  • Chapter 28: Reductionism
  • Chapter 29: Egocentric Bias
  • Chapter 30: Working in Groups, Pt 1
  • Chapter 31: Working in Groups, Pt 2
  • Chapter 32: Interlude: Personal Financial Management
  • Chapter 33: Coordination Problems, Pt 1
  • Chapter 34: Coordination Problems, Pt 2
  • Chapter 35: Coordination Problems, Pt 3
  • Chapter 36: Status Differentials
  • Chapter 37: Interlude: Crossing the Boundary
  • Chapter 38: The Cardinal Sin
  • Chapter 39: Pretending to be Wise, Pt 1
  • Chapter 40: Pretending to be Wise, Pt 2
  • Chapter 41: Frontal Override
  • Chapter 42: Courage
  • Chapter 43: Humanism, Pt 1
  • Chapter 44: Humanism, Pt 2
  • Chapter 45: Humanism, Pt 3
  • Chapter 46: Humanism, Pt 4
  • Chapter 47: Personhood Theory
  • Chapter 48: Utilitarian Priorities
  • Chapter 49: Prior Information
  • Chapter 50: Self Centeredness
  • Chapter 51: Title Redacted, Pt 1
  • Chapter 52: The Stanford Prison Experiment, Pt 2
  • Chapter 53: The Stanford Prison Experiment, Pt 3
  • Chapter 54: The Stanford Prison Experiment, Pt 4
  • Chapter 55: The Stanford Prison Experiment, Pt 5
  • Chapter 56: TSPE, Constrained Optimization, Pt 6
  • Chapter 57: TSPE, Constrained Cognition, Pt 7
  • Chapter 58: TSPE, Constrained Cognition, Pt 8
  • Chapter 59: TSPE, Curiosity, Pt 9
  • Chapter 60: The Stanford Prison Experiment, Pt 10
  • Chapter 61: TSPE, Secrecy and Openness, Pt 11
  • Chapter 62: The Stanford Prison Experiment, Final
  • Chapter 63: TSPE, Aftermaths
  • Chapter 64: Omake Files 4, Alternate Parallels
  • Chapter 65: Contagious Lies
  • Chapter 66: Self Actualization, Pt 1
  • Chapter 67: Self Actualization, Pt 2
  • Chapter 68: Self Actualization, Pt 3
  • Chapter 69: Self Actualization, Pt 4
  • Chapter 70: Self Actualization, Pt 5
  • Chapter 71: Self Actualization, Pt 6
  • Chapter 72: SA, Plausible Deniability, Pt 7
  • Chapter 73: SA, The Sacred and the Mundane, Pt 8
  • Chapter 74: SA, Escalation of Conflicts, Pt 9
  • Chapter 75: Self Actualization Final, Responsibility
  • Chapter 76: Interlude with the Confessor: Sunk Costs
  • Chapter 77: SA, Aftermaths: Surface Appearances
  • Chapter 78: Taboo Tradeoffs Prelude: Cheating
  • Chapter 79: Taboo Tradeoffs, Pt 1
  • Chapter 80: Taboo Tradeoffs, Pt 2, The Horns Effect
  • Chapter 81: Taboo Tradeoffs, Pt 3
  • Chapter 82: Taboo Tradeoffs, Final
  • Chapter 83: Taboo Tradeoffs, Aftermath 1
  • Chapter 84: Taboo Tradeoffs, Aftermath 2
  • Chapter 85: Taboo Tradeoffs, Aftermath 3, Distance
  • Chapter 86: Multiple Hypothesis Testing
  • Chapter 87: Hedonic Awareness
  • Chapter 88: Time Pressure, Pt 1
  • Chapter 89: Time Pressure, Pt 2
  • Chapter 90: Roles, Pt 1
  • Chapter 91: Roles, Pt 2
  • Chapter 92: Roles, Pt 3
  • Chapter 93: Roles, Pt 4
  • Chapter 94: Roles, Pt 5
  • Chapter 95: Roles, Pt 6
  • Chapter 96: Roles, Pt 7
  • Chapter 97: Roles, Pt 8
  • Chapter 98: Roles, Final
  • Chapter 99: Roles, Aftermath
  • Chapter 100: Precautionary Measures, Pt 1
  • Chapter 101: Precautionary Measures, Pt 2
  • Chapter 102: Caring
  • Chapter 103: Tests
  • Chapter 104: The Truth, Pt 1, Riddles and Answers
  • Chapter 105: The Truth, Pt 2
  • Chapter 106: The Truth, Pt 3
  • Chapter 107: The Truth, Pt 4
  • Chapter 108: The Truth, Pt 5, Answers and Riddles
  • Chapter 109: Reflections
  • Chapter 110: Reflections, Pt 2
  • Chapter 111: Failure, Pt 1
  • Chapter 112: Failure, Pt 2
  • Chapter 113: Final Exam
  • Chapter 114: Shut Up and Do The Impossible
  • Chapter 115: Shut Up and Do The Impossible, Pt 2
  • Chapter 116: Aftermath, Something to Protect, Pt 0
  • Chapter 117: Something to Protect: Minerva McGonagall
  • Chapter 118: Something to Protect: Professor Quirrell
  • Chapter 119: Something to Protect: Albus Dumbledore
  • Chapter 120: Something to Protect: Draco Malfoy
  • Chapter 121: Something to Protect: Severus Snape
  • Chapter 122: Something to Protect: Hermione Granger

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