MIRI and the Rationalists worked hard to guard Humanity from the threat of Unfriendly AI. Nobody thought to expect the Scrupulosity Bomb - a first-of-its-kind engineered supervirus designed to modify humans with the genetic vulnerability to scrupulosity - would be deployed first, rapidly spreading first from North America and then to the world. As the social structures of the old world melted away, a new world order of "hyperpoliteness" emerged. It turned out we were the space elves all along.

among historians, it’s still debated whether the Scupulosity Bomb was justified as part of an effort to stop the incessant rationalist whinging about dust specks, freedom of speech, and, most damningly, Harry Potter,