Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

And so it ends. One way or another, I expect to write more, though I haven’t yet settled on Precisely Bound Djinni and their Behavior versus The College of Sunlight and various other options. ...

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So!  HPMOR is ending, and there are two things I long ago decided I would do when that occurred. First, the following request: I would like any readers who think that HPMOR deserves it sufficien...

https://hpmor.com/notes/119/

I am running a few minutes late on this chapter owing to last-minute edits.  Please don’t panic. As of March 3rd, the current list of HPMOR Wrap Parties on Pi Day, March 14th was as follows: ...

https://hpmor.com/notes/116/

The final arc of HPMOR, chapters 104 through 120, will begin posting on February 15th, 2015, at 5PM Pacific Time, and finish on March 14th, 2015, at 9AM Pacific Time.  (The first draft of 104-12...

https://hpmor.com/notes/103/

Ch. 118-120 remain to be written, but I am taking the tentative plunge and saying that I currently but not solidly plan to begin posting HPMOR Ch. 104 on February 15th, 2015, and conclude with Ch...

https://hpmor.com/notes/progress-15-01-01/

76,800 words in and Ch. 117 is done.  3 chapters left to go.  My current plan is to post the final arc in February, but I’m not committing to a definite start date until the first draft is ...

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Not much HPMOR writing to report since October; 72,000 words in and working on Ch. 116 (of 120). For RaNoWriMo (Rational Novel Writing Month) I have started to publish some abridged excerpts of m...

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Ch. 103-115 are written, at 66,650 words.  Many of those chapters are in at least second-draft state.  Ch. 116-120 remain to be written, but these will hopefully be shorter and faster—we are ...

https://hpmor.com/notes/progress-14-10-01/

37,000 words into the final arc, and just starting Ch. 109.  It’s a good pace, but I’m not sure I’m going to be done with the final arc by the time it’s time to fly back from North Car...

https://hpmor.com/notes/progress-2014-09-12/

Hi everyone!  I am ensconced in North Carolina, near Wilkesboro, which is an hour from Greensboro or Charlotte.  The good news is that Ch. 104 is complete at 10,331 words and I am 744 words i...

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The end is now in sight!  Thanks to an extremely generous anonymous sponsor, and to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute which decided it was a wise use of my time, I will be spending Aug...

https://hpmor.com/notes/102/

The next update, a single chapter (Ch. 102), will post on July 25th, 2014 at 7PM Pacific Time. From August 26th to September 25th, an extremely generous HPMOR reader has arranged for me to occu...

https://hpmor.com/notes/progress-14-07-01/

No writing progress to report.  May was one crazy month—well, you don’t care about that. Question to the general readership:  Does anyone have a quiet vacation home, not necessarily somewh...

https://hpmor.com/notes/progress-14-06-01/

No new writing progress to report; moving to Berkeley ate everything.  I’ve been trying to write up a small guide to writing fiction with intelligent characters and other rare vitamins of HPMO...

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3,000 words into Ch. 103.  MIRI has just hired Benja Fallenstein and Nate Soares as the second and third full-time researchers, and I expect to spent most of April working with them.  While I d...

https://hpmor.com/notes/progress-report-14-04-01/

Ch. 102 is finished and mostly polished at 3,874 words; and I’m 358 words into Ch. 103, meaning that I’m now beginning work on the Last Arc.  I used to think that the important thing was to ...

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I did not have time to work on HPMOR during January, due to life hecticness.  With any luck my life will be less hectic during February.  So still 3,341 words into Ch. 102. On the other-reading...

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Currently 3,341 words into Ch. 102.  I don’t know if I’ll post this chapter immediately upon its completion; after that starts the Final Arc which may take a while to write, so I may save 10...

https://hpmor.com/notes/progress-14-01-01/

So – I begin by stating that I know Ch. 99 might be a tad controversial.  I apologize for any norms it may have violated and observe that you received 8,500 words immediately after.  (Yes, I ...

https://hpmor.com/notes/101/

Good news!  I shall be brief.  My employer has allocated some time for me to work on producing the next (1-2 chapter) update of HPMOR!  I can’t make promises because there could always be so...

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