Eneasz Brodsky

And not only do I think we kind of like went long on the feedback, but I realized that I may have committed the rationalist vice of undercutting momentum.

Do you think we should have just gone for it as long as we were in the flow and maybe looped back to the announcements afterwards?

I'm still in the flow.

You're still in the flow?

Okay, I'm going to reveal a thing that I would worry about all the time when I was editing these episodes by hand.

Would be a thing like, was this too long of a thing before we got into the main topic?

Are people going to lose interest if we haven't gotten to the main topic by like 15 minutes?

And then I would try to chop things to make it shorter so that we could get to the main topic faster if it wasn't right at the top.

And now, again, I'm having that worry like, at this point, have 20% of the listeners clicked away because it took us too long to get to it.

Am I being too neurotic or should we adjust in the future?

That's right.

I feel good about it.

I wouldn't sweat it, dude.

All right.

Well, let's get into talking about this essay about what Harry Potter is actually about.

So as you said, the essay is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a Disney movie about a serial killer.

Question.

At the very top here, he links to Alexander Wales's essay.

And I saw you took a number of notes on that.

Did you want to go over those or did we want to get into the Williams essay?