The Methods of Rationality Podcast

The paranoia and distrust escalate and John gets his hands on the ansible!

Next week Steven is out of town, so the week after that we’re covering chapters 18, 19, and 20!

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This week’s discussion question: How would you test the ansible once you had both the transmitter and receiver?

Pus covered killer robots and guardian angels? This week has it all!

Next week we’re covering chapters 16 and 17!

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This week’s discussion question: Is there any reason that we have now (no future knowledge allowed) that prohibits future-John from being the mastermind behind all of this?

We learn just how messy this situation gets with a time machine in the mix and we don’t know who to trust!

Next week we’re covering chapters 14 and 15!

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This week’s discussion question: Who’s your current favorite suspect for who tried to kill Aiden and why?

The investigation is underfoot and the mastermind behind the reunion is revealed!

Next week we’re covering chapters 12 and 13!

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This week’s discussion question: Favorite examples of the past coming back to bite you, where the protagonist or (or the other people in their party) used to be a different kind of person. Bonus points if there’s a phrase which is spooky when reminded of it, a la “Are we having fun yet?”

Steven and Brian get to sit down with Matt Freeman (moridinamael) and discuss the awesome details of Matt’s writing process and the story’s origins!

Next week we’re covering chapters 10 and 11!

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This week’s discussion question: What’s your favorite whodunnit (optionally, your favorite trope) and why?

We get a murder mystery in a sorta-mystical castle and a time machine?? What’s not to love?

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This week’s discussion question: What’s your favorite time travel paradox? Either in general or from fiction.

This week John has a flashback to high school and his past hitches a ride back to the future!

We’re covering chapters 8 and 9 next week!

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This week’s discussion question: How realistic do you like your near-term sci-fi? Give an example or two.

This week we get to Avalon and John bumps into some more old friends.

We’re covering chapters 6 and 7 next week!

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This week we get some awesome background world building of our sci-fi setting and learn that John is either plagued by psychosis or possibly adrift in the many currents of time!

We’re covering chapters 4 and 5 next week!

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Steven and Brian get acquainted with John and his interesting life as a possibly-famous, probably-successful writer. We’re off to a good start and having a blast!

These chapters are pretty short, so we’re covering 2 and 3 next week. We’ll probably do 2 chapters a week going forward.

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Steven and Brian are back, baby! We’re excited to embark on our next literary adventure – The Knot by Matt Freeman! This is just the announcement – we’ll be back next week with chapter 1!

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Kindness to Kin, by Eliezer Yudkowsky Original text here

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