ybooks

Books

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky · 2015 · 203 pages

1 person has this book on the record — 0 of 1 verdicts positive. The dissent stays on the page.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Rakhim Davletkaliyev read it
I liked the first 10% of the book because it was full of promise, and the last 5% because it was finally ending. Cool idea, meandering execution, utterly non-rewarding. I’ve seen some reviewers complaining about "too much scientific stuff", but there wasn’t enough! Every time it came to some clever muggle science and magic crossover, I was excited like a little kid, but every time it was abrupt…

on rakhim.org · 16 Aug 2026

This book on rcmnd →

That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.