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[Spoilers All] A Critical Review of HPMOR : r/HPMOR

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The unofficial subreddit for "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" by Eliezer Yudkowsky (aka "Less Wrong"). I mean "critical" as in "a judgement of the merits and faults". If you really, really liked this story, imagine me beginning each sentence with "In my opinion,". I don't really agree with the notion that a piece of literature needs to be any one thing. The best works of art are multitools - different things to different people, and even different things to the same person. If done correctly, social commentary can be combined with comedy and schmaltzy romance can be combined with biting parody. So long as the goals of the work don't conflict, it's possible to accomplish them all at the same time. So what are the goals of the work? Methods Of Rationality wants to teach you things. It wants to give you lessons on social psychology, cognitive biases, and science. For the most part, it delivers these lessons in a straightforward way - many of the chapters feature a direct expl

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