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HPMOR: The (Probably) Untold Lore — LessWrong

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Eliezer and I love to talk about writing. We talk about our own current writing projects, how we’d improve the books we’re reading, and what we want to write next. Sometimes along the way I learn some amazing fact about HPMOR or Project Lawful or one of Eliezer’s other works. “Wow, you’re kidding,” I say, “do your fans know this? I think people would really be interested.” “I can’t remember,” he usually says. “I don’t think I’ve ever explained that bit before, I’m not sure.” I decided to interview him more formally, collect as many of those tidbits about HPMOR as I could, and share them with you. I hope you enjoy them. It’s probably obvious, but there will be many, many spoilers for HPMOR in this article, and also very little of it will make sense if you haven’t read the book. So go read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality before you read any further. We talk about HPMOR’s characters, including how Eliezer tried to make every single character awesome, and why Hermione gets unic

x HPMOR: The (Probably) Untold Lore — LessWrong Fiction (Topic) HPMOR (discussion & meta) Curated 2025 Top Fifty: 13 % 432 HPMOR: The (Probably) Untold Lore by Gretta Duleba , Eliezer Yudkowsky 25th Jul 2025 45 min read 166 432 Eliezer and I love to talk about writing. We talk about our own current writing projects, how we’d improve the books we’re reading, and what we want to write next. Sometimes along the way I learn some amazing fact about HPMOR or Project Lawful or one of Eliezer’s other works. “Wow, you’re kidding,” I say, “do your fans know this? I think people would really be intereste

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