Ep. 8: Reciprocity, pt. 2 - Enlightenment

In part 2 of chapter 7, Draco tells Harry how to get away with sexual assault.

Oh, and there's a ~wacky fizzy drink~ to lift the mood. Are we still having fun?

CONTENT WARNING: this episode discusses rape.

RAINN Hotline: https://rainn.org/help-and-healing/hotline/ 

Citations and further reading, pt 2

• HPMoR, Chapter 7. Eliezer Yudkowsky. https://hpmor.com/chapter/7
• Elisa’s show notes: https://www.tumblr.com/ecc-poetry/tagged/hpmor%20and%20the%20limits%20of%20rationality
• “Draco in Leather Pants.” Wiktionary, accessed 21 July 2026. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Draco_in_Leather_Pants
• Influence, Robert B. Cialdini. HarperCollins, 2007. https://dn710600.ca.archive.org/0/items/ThePsychologyOfPersuasion/The%20Psychology%20of%20Persuasion.pdf 
• “EYudkowsky,” Yudkowsky. OKCupid, 2011; access 21 July 2026. https://web.archive.org/web/20120904013510/http://www.okcupid.com/profile/Eyudkowsky 
• How to Be Perfect, Michael Schur. Simon & Schuster, 2023. https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-be-perfect-the-correct-answer-to-every-moral-question-michael-schur/397bc14a2c866e22?ean=9781982159320 
• “Effects of a Favor and Liking on Compliance,” Dennis T. Regan. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1971. https://www.scribd.com/document/981877189/Regan-1971-Reciprocity 
• “The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness,” Arthur Aron et al. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1997. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0146167297234003 
• “Silicon Valley’s Safe Space,” Cade Metz. New York Times, 13 Feb 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210213101345/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html
• “"How are you coping with the end of the world?" journalists sometimes ask me, and I sometimes reply, "By remembering that it's not about me."  They have no hope of understanding what I mean by this, I predict, because to them I am the subject of the story and it has not occurred to them that there's a whole planet out there too to be the story-subject.  I think there's probably a sense in which the Earth itself is not a real thing to most modern journalists.
  
  “The journalist is imagining a story that is about me, and about whether or not I am going insane, not just because it is an easy cliche to write, but because personality is the only real thing to the journalist.” "Eliezer's Unteachable Methods of Sanity," Eliezer Yudkowsky. LessWrong, 6 Dec 2025. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/isSBwfgRY6zD6mycc/eliezer-s-unteachable-methods-of-sanity  
• “Effective Altruism Promises to Do Good Better. These Women Say It Has a Toxic Culture Of Sexual Harassment and Abuse,” Charlotte Alter. TIME, 3 Feb 2023.  https://web.archive.org/web/20230203133416/https://time.com/6252617/effective-altruism-sexual-harassment/ 
• “Belonging (Part 4: TIME’s up?),” David Thorstad. Reflective Altruism, 4 March 2023. https://reflectivealtruism.com/2023/03/04/belonging-part-4-times-up/ 
• “I think you are dramatically overestimating how difficult it was, back in the day, to accidentally or incidentally learn Scott's full name. I think this is the crux here.
  
  “It was extremely easy to find his name, and often people have stories of learning it on accident.” Alex Vermillion. LessWrong, 31 March 2024. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oYnwTuxySiaZYDrur/my-interview-with-cade-metz-on-his-reporting-about-slate?commentId=xobBj8Lrf2LpfLRW6
• “Key Findings: Rethinking Serial Perpetrators,” Tharp et al. National Sexual Violence Resource Center, 2015. https://www.nsvrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/publications_nsvrc_key-findings_rethinking-serial-perpetration_0.pdf 
• “Offending Histories and Typologies of Suspected Sexual Offenders Identified Via Untested Sexual Assault Kits,” Lovell et al. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2020. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel-Flannery/publication/360873352_Offending_Histories_and_Typologies_of_Suspected_Sexual_Offenders_Identified_Via_Untested_Sexual_Assault_Kits/links/655274753fa26f66f4fde825/Offending-Histories-and-Typologies-of-Suspected-Sexual-Offenders-Identified-Via-Untested-Sexual-Assault-Kits.pdf 
• “Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Undetected Rapists,” David Lisak and Paul M. Miller. Violence and Victims, 2002. https://storage.googleapis.com/dpss-uploads/2002-lisak-repeatrapeinundetectedrapists.pdf 
• “Three Worlds Collide: Interlude with the Confessor,” Yudkowsky. LessWrong, 2 Feb 2009. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bojLBvsYck95gbKNM/interlude-with-the-confessor-4-8 
• “Gentle Silent Rape,” Robin Hanson. Overcoming Bias, 30 Nov 2010. https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/gentlesilentrapehtml 
• “Are Your Enemies Innately Evil?”, Yudkowsky. LessWrong, 26 June 2007. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/28bAMAxhoX3bwbAKC/are-your-enemies-innately-evil