The HPMOR Meme: Nine Years Later, Everyone in AI Still Has to Read It
justalexoki · x · 2026-10-03
A classic AI/rationalist-culture meme resurfaces: someone recalls being told in 2016 to read the fanfic Harry Potter and the Method of Rationality, refusing — only to concede years later that they really do have to read it. HPMOR is a signature cultural touchstone of the rationalist and AI communities, and the post captures the community's running joke that resistance is futile.
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