Friendship is optimal is fairly interesting as it is a long form work about a paperclipping scenario, and a fairly early one at that. It actually probably works a bit better if you don't like MLP as the padded cell where you will never want for anything, and the resulting insipidness of such an existence is brought into sharper relief. Kind of old hat these days if you're already versed on paperclippers though.
Hpamor was okay I think. You kind of have to accept that it's largely a snarky takedown of Harry Potter's world building. I liked it's take on the character of Draco Malfoy and his father. The battle scenarios were fun if kind of silly. It gets up its own ass a lot, but I wouldn't dismiss it as a waste of time to read. I have fond memories of it.
As for LessWrong, I never interacted with the community, but I read some of the articles, and they are a mix of insightful computer science research and a the texts of a AI doomsday cult.
There was also Twilight fanfic of a similar nature I read around the same time which I also quite enjoyed, despite never having read Twilight. Of course being Twilight making the character more intelligent makes her less of a Mary Sue. Luminosity was the name I think.
Read both a long time ago.
Friendship is optimal is fairly interesting as it is a long form work about a paperclipping scenario, and a fairly early one at that. It actually probably works a bit better if you don't like MLP as the padded cell where you will never want for anything, and the resulting insipidness of such an existence is brought into sharper relief. Kind of old hat these days if you're already versed on paperclippers though.
Hpamor was okay I think. You kind of have to accept that it's largely a snarky takedown of Harry Potter's world building. I liked it's take on the character of Draco Malfoy and his father. The battle scenarios were fun if kind of silly. It gets up its own ass a lot, but I wouldn't dismiss it as a waste of time to read. I have fond memories of it.
As for LessWrong, I never interacted with the community, but I read some of the articles, and they are a mix of insightful computer science research and a the texts of a AI doomsday cult.
There was also Twilight fanfic of a similar nature I read around the same time which I also quite enjoyed, despite never having read Twilight. Of course being Twilight making the character more intelligent makes her less of a Mary Sue. Luminosity was the name I think.