I enjoyed watching that, even as someone who really liked HPMoR.

I wasn’t aware of a lot of the wider context around the author and the rationalist movement. For example, I read HPMoR with Harry calling all the wizards in the book NPCs as commentary about Rowling’s writing (that her characters and magic system bend to suit the plot, as very few characters have any agency) so every other person at Hogwarts is an NPC, but if Yudkowsky actually believes that people who aren’t rational are, effectively, subhuman, then that twists the interpretation of HPMoR rather dramatically. I’m still not convinced Yudkowsky thinks that, but it’s disheartening to hear that some HPMoR readers basically founded a cult that does believe that.

Thanks for the link! I should check out his other videos. He seems like a really hoopy frood.

Copyright has completely jumped the shark. There’s absolutely no balance between the public benefit of the public domain.

30 years ought to be enough time for anyone to extract any reasonable value from an IP. If you haven’t made your profit in 30 years, then let the public benefit from it.

Or at least let preservationists (data hoarders, let’s be honest) keep our cultural history alive and accessible for future generations.