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

Jeffrey Sasai paused significantly.

Brennan inwardly sighed.

He'd heard this line many times before, in the Bardic conspiracy, the competitive conspiracy.

The other teachers think my assignments are too easy.

You should be grateful, followed by some ridiculously difficult task.

They say, Jeffrey Sasai said, that my projects are too hard, insanely hard, that they pass from the realm of madness into the realm of Sparta, that Laplace himself would catch on fire.

They accuse me of trying to tear apart my students' souls.

Oh, crap.

But there is a reason, Jeffrey Sasai said, why many of my students have achieved great things.

And by that I do not mean high rank in the Bayesian conspiracy.

I expected much of them and they came to expect much of themselves.

So, Jeffrey Sasai took a moment to look over his increasingly disturbed students.

Here is your assignment.

Of quantum mechanics and general relativity, you have been told.

This is the limit of Eld science, and hence, the limit of public knowledge.

The five of you, working on your own, are to produce the correct theory of quantum gravity.

Your time limit is one month.

What?

said Brennan.

Taji, Stirling, and Yin.