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

The opposite of folly is folly, Herois said.

Let us pretend that eld science never existed.

No criticisms yet, said Sterling.

Herois, your suggestion.

Get rid of the infinities, said Herois.

Extirpate that which permits them.

It should not be a matter of cleverness with integrals.

A representation that allows infinity must be false to fact.

Yin.

We know from common sense, Yin said, that if we stepped outside the universe, we would see time laid out all at once, reality like a crystal.

But I once encountered a hint that physics is timeless in a deeper sense than that.

Yin's eyes were distant, remembering.

Years ago I found an abandoned city.

It had been uninhabited for eras, I think, and behind a door whose locks were broken, carved into one wall, quote,

Brennan translated, Eureka!

Eliminate T from the equations.

And written in Lojban, the secret language of science which meant the unknown writer had thought it to be true.

The timeless physics of which we've all heard rumors, Yin said, may be timeless in a very literal sense.

A strangely individualist perspective, Taji murmured.

For one of the cooperative conspiracy...