Re: that fanfic, I vaguely remember seeing a passage where Draco tells Harry (both still just first years, in other words they're 11 when this goes down) that he wants to rape Luna Lovegood (a 10 year old) to teach her dad not to mess with the Malfoys. Instantly killed any desire I had to read any more of HPMOR, and it hasn't come back ever since.
As for LessWrong in general, the last thing I remember is that they collectively shat their pants over the concept of Roko's Basilisk - that recreation of Pascal's Wager by 'rational' atheists who've clearly been hit on the head with an anvil - to the point where Yudkowsky banned all mention of it and the guy who came up with it. Seems like they rapidly fell into total obscurity after that debacle, itself coming on the heels of the implosion of Internet atheism around 2012-14 between Elevatorgate and the rise (and fall) of Atheism+. I don't think I've seen Yudkowsky's name mentioned anywhere, by anyone, in the past four or five years, and it only came up when people wanted to mock him and his notion of rationality for a year or two before that.
Re: that fanfic, I vaguely remember seeing a passage where Draco tells Harry (both still just first years, in other words they're 11 when this goes down) that he wants to rape Luna Lovegood (a 10 year old) to teach her dad not to mess with the Malfoys. Instantly killed any desire I had to read any more of HPMOR, and it hasn't come back ever since.
As for LessWrong in general, the last thing I remember is that they collectively shat their pants over the concept of Roko's Basilisk - that recreation of Pascal's Wager by 'rational' atheists who've clearly been hit on the head with an anvil - to the point where Yudkowsky banned all mention of it and the guy who came up with it. Seems like they rapidly fell into total obscurity after that debacle, itself coming on the heels of the implosion of Internet atheism around 2012-14 between Elevatorgate and the rise (and fall) of Atheism+. I don't think I've seen Yudkowsky's name mentioned anywhere, by anyone, in the past four or five years, and it only came up when people wanted to mock him and his notion of rationality for a year or two before that.