This is an absolutely marvelous work of fan fiction written in the Harry Potter universe. But what distinguishes it from other first rate fan fiction is the underlying approach of the author Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Less Wrong blog . Yudkowsky is a rationalist. He hopes to make people more rational by getting them to avoid mistakes caused byharry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality_202108 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1bm3pn47 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9900 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters-l eng Page_number_confidence 73.85 Ppi 300 Scanner Internet
This is because Harry's backstory had a couple important details altered: 1- Petunia married a biochemist and college professor (instead of Vernon Dursley) who taught Harry a lot of science and made him a tremendously more intelligent child than canon Harry, and 2- Petunia doesn't hate her sister Lily (and thus raised Harry in a loving way).
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