Narrator/Multiple characters (primary) - likely Eliezer Yudkowsky reading as Jeffrey Sasai and others

class project.

Do as well as Einstein, Jeffrey Sasai said incredulously.

Just as well as Einstein?

Albert Einstein was a great scientist of his era.

But that was his era, not this one.

Einstein did not comprehend the Bayesian methods.

He lived before the cognitive biases were discovered.

He had no scientific grasp of his own thought processes.

He was too caught up in the drama of rejecting his era's quantum mechanics to actually fix it.

And while I grant that Einstein reasoned cleanly in the matter of general relativity, barring that matter of the cosmological constant, he took ten years to do it.

Too slow.

Too slow, repeated Taji incredulously.

Too slow.

If Einstein were in this classroom now, rather than Earth of the negative first century, I would wrap his knuckles.

You will not try to do as well as Einstein.

You will aspire to do better than Einstein, or you may as well not bother.

Jeffrey Sasai shook his head.

Well, I've given you enough hints.

It is time to test your skills.

Now, I know that the other Beisutsukai don't think much of my class projects.