Surprisingly massive fan art update, holy smokes!
Note that all art may spoil up to Ch. 96, and that titles may spoil up to Ch. 89.
- immortalpictures: Consequences of Rationality
- UntalentedArtist: “Go.”
- Bayesian-Conspirator: Never, ever, forever and Harry Potter Portrait
- KSilvershade: In Memoriam
- Rjalker: Rest in Peace, General Granger + The Phoenix + A Centaur Told Her Not To
- Korn-Elia: Who is Professor Michael Verres-Evans? + Professor Michael Verres-Evans
- cesca-specs: A Day of Very Low Probability
- SepulchreSilence: Among The Stars
- alannahowe: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (very nice, I could see this on a book cover!)
- aloofmonkey: Ravenclaw dresser
- Illustrating Rationality: HJPEV’s Emergency Healing Pack Plus, HJPEV’s trunk, Ravenclaw Headboard, Comed-Tea
- C2ii: Not Your Fault (nightmare alerts), Hermione-alicorn
- UntalentedArtist: Agreement – HPMOR (spoilers Ch. 89-95)
- MsAliot: Harry & Hermione. HPMoR by Less Wrong (YouTube)
- Laura Trutoiu: Deathly Hallows
- Rhaidot: Everything I Believe is False, Comparing Reality To Its Alternatives, The Efficient Market Hypothesis, Fallacy
- DoubtSide: Finite Incantatem
- pinkyoungceo: Only Nothingness Above
- Anhyver: Time Pressure (this is why I did not write Ch. 89 from her perspective)
- EternalStargazer: An Ancient Prophecy (audio)
- royishere: Stars (as sung by Quirrell) (audio, Filk song of HPMOR!)
- Umbetitelt: Syringe
- ThornSanguine: For Chaos!
- Henry Truong: HPMOR Hallows (Wallpaper)
- And a new recursive fanfic, Depart Azkaban by ThinkingSpeck.
I have no realistic hope of providing cameos for all these artists with only one major arc left to go – but thank you very much to everyone for this gigantic outpouring of artistic inspiration!
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My host organization, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, which occasionally kindly gives me several weeks of paid leave to write HPMOR, is almost at the end of its summer fundraising drive, a $200,000 matching grant currently with $150,063 achieved, with only 1 day left on the clock. All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar by the challengers up to and through August 15th, tomorrow.
In 2012 MIRI received donations from a total of 280 people, and 20 people gave over $5,000. Over MIRI’s lifetime from its inception in 2000 to the start of 2013, MIRI has had only ~3,000 donors ever. If you want the #8 spot on the all-time top lifetime donor list, it costs $70,000. Robin Lee Powell is our #18 lifetime contributor just by virtue of steadily donating $200/month. Please do not assume that other people are taking care of this – act heroically!
I am currently targeting Tuesday, August 27th for posting Ch. 98, or the rest of the arc if there’s more than 1 final chapter. I will post an Author’s Note on Saturday, August 24th at 5pm Pacific to let everyone know whether I am on schedule to do so. See you then, I hope!