diff --git a/sopel/tools/memories.py b/sopel/tools/memories.py
index aa21af7db..ab79922a2 100644
--- a/sopel/tools/memories.py
+++ b/sopel/tools/memories.py
@@ -58,12 +58,6 @@ def __contains__(self, key):
         self.lock.release()
         return result
 
-    # Needed to make it explicit that we don't care about the `lock` attribute
-    # when comparing/hashing SopelMemory objects.
-    __eq__ = dict.__eq__
-    __ne__ = dict.__ne__
-    __hash__ = dict.__hash__
-
 
 class SopelMemoryWithDefault(defaultdict):
     """Same as SopelMemory, but subclasses from collections.defaultdict.