podcast – The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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30 May 2022
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Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 217-220
23 May 2022
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Chapters 217-220 – Raw-ass thoughts… or raw ass-thoughts? James Acaster’s Banana Revenge Fantasy The Bayesian Conspiracy episode 162 For...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 213-216
16 May 2022
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Chapters 213-216 – The Good Kind of Cult 500 Million, But Not a Single One More For next week — 217-220 217. A Dragon’s Roost 218. A Gruelin...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 209-212
09 May 2022
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Chapters 209-212 – The Dragon In The Stories Tim Curry goes to SPACE! Hyperrealism Learn To Read, Kid, But Don’t Fall In Love For next week —...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 206-208
02 May 2022
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Chapters 206-208 – Hitting The Slopes BTS Is That Your True Rejection? Folding Ideas on Ludonarrative Dissonance Three Worlds Collide – the st...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 203-205
25 Apr 2022
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Chapters 203-205 – I Got 99 Problems, and I’m All Of Them Porcupine Tree – A Smart Kid (song) Why You Should Trust Trust and Distrus...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 200-202
18 Apr 2022
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Chapters 200-202 – Think Like a Dinosaur The Prestige spoilers end at 1:18:11 The Bayesian Conspiracy episode 158 – Can Monarchy Save Us From Fasc...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 196-199
11 Apr 2022
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Chapters 196-199 – Let’s Call Them… Sneezes For next week — 200-202 200. Feeling Blue 201. The Aviary 202. Star Pupil Worth the Candle...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 192-195
04 Apr 2022
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Chapters 192-195 – We choose to try to sympathize with, and humanize, the Fucking Penndraigs not because it is easy, but because it is hard! Pod...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 188-191 decrackled
31 Mar 2022
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This is a decrackled version of the previous episode. Content is identical, but the audio has been filtered to remove the crackle. It still isn’...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 188-191
28 Mar 2022
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Chapters 188-191 – Totally Legal and Awesome My Dick, by Mickey Avalon (extremely bad taste, and offensive, you’ve been warned) For next week ...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 185-187
21 Mar 2022
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Chapters 185-187 – Hallelujah, It’s Raining Men Eneasz’s latest story – We Shall Not All Sleep But We Shall All Be Changed is in D...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 181-184
14 Mar 2022
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Chapters 181-184 – Seeing The Sausage (…being made) Unsong For next week — 185-187 185. Mirror Room 186. Paladin 187. Penndraig’s ...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 177-180
07 Mar 2022
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Chapters 177-180: Total failure to wait until the point when the expected costs of maintaining diplomacy rise too high as compared to the expected ben...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 174-176
28 Feb 2022
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Chapters 174-176: A Chill Week At The Pod The Lost City of Potyr For next week — 177-180 177. The Erstwhile Manor 178. The White Room 179. Hilbert&#...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 170-173
21 Feb 2022
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Chapters 170-173: Inflating D’s Nerd Sniping For next week — 174-176 174. The Blade of the Self 175. High Concept 176. Warrens Cakoluchiam’s...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 167-169
14 Feb 2022
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Chapters 167-169: Fractal Therapy David S Pumpkins Aella on trauma narratives. Also, Aella’s survey regarding your opinions as to what counts as...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 163-166
07 Feb 2022
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Chapters 163-166: Betrayal The Death of Stalin Troma Studios For next week — 167-169 167. Beached 168. Hollow 169. The No Sleep Club Cakoluchiam’s...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 160-162
17 Jan 2022
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Chapters 160-162: C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER! SSC – Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success Matrix Resurrections is mid-life crisis perfection For nex...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 156-159
10 Jan 2022
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Chapters 156-159: The Newer Cooler Hotter Younger Jesus Eneasz’s award-winning short story I See Dead Kids Tropic Thunder I Have The Power of Go...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 153-155
03 Jan 2022
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Chapters 153-155: Wrath of the Student Council Missing Persons by Alexander Wales Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter Fat Man For next week — 156-159 156. ...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 150-152
27 Dec 2021
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Chapters 150-152: Nerd Names The TBC episode mentioned – 7 – Kill All Humans? For next week — 153-155 153. The Temple 154. Above From Below ...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 147-149
20 Dec 2021
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Chapters 147-149: Handjobs Are My Headcanon Palisade Peaches Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me For next week — 150-152 150. Than One Innocent S...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 144-146
13 Dec 2021
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Chapters 144-146: Everything Is A Boob David Pumpkins The O’Reilly Factor – satire or serious? SSC Post: Living By The Sword For next week...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 140-143
06 Dec 2021
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Chapters 140-143: We have writer-crushes on Alexander Wales in this Wholesome episode The Church of The Dude Robin Hanson on his “Age of Em̶...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 137-139
29 Nov 2021
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Chapters 137-139: And you thought this would be a shorter episode Ted Lasso Honest Trailer Zombie Movies That Refuse to Say “Zombie” For n...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 133-136
22 Nov 2021
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Chapters 133-136: Turn off this podcast if it’s convincing! Covid Booster? For next week — 137-139 137. Darili Irid 138. Stats for Nerds II 13...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 129-132
15 Nov 2021
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Chapters 129-132: Is that an infohazard in your underwear, or are you just happy to see me? The Magnus Archives Shaping Exercises, the Mother of Learn...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 125-128
08 Nov 2021
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Chapters 125-128: Can God Ctrl+Z? LHC Concerns? Welcome to Corneria! Classic Touch Him On The Penis For next week — 129-132 129. Schemata 130. The A...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 121-124
01 Nov 2021
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Chapters 121-124: Who Wore It Best, Nihilism Edition — Fight Club Guy, Joon, or Lebowski Nihilists? Esther Povitsky on how 18-Year-Old Girls Are...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 117-120
25 Oct 2021
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Chapters 117-120: Fenn :( Key & Peele sketch Rules for Rulers For next week — 121-124 121. Maddie 122. Raven 123. Medieval Stasis 124. Fight Clu...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 113-116
18 Oct 2021
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Chapters 113-116: Does Fallatehr Look Like A Bitch For next week — 117-120 117. Beast of Burden 118. Breaking Loose 119. Depths 120. Deceptions Cako...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 109-112
11 Oct 2021
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Chapters 105-109: We Never Wear Pants When We Podcast For next week — 113-116 113. A Hell of a Time 114. The Meeting of Minds 115. Communicative 116...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 105-108
04 Oct 2021
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Chapters 105-109: Eneasz has brain failure Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf Shia’s TED talk The Catagories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Catago...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Books 1 – 5 Retrospective
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We look back on books 1-5 with Gorky (formerly Coy) and Griffin of Shaping Exercises 101 For next week — 105-108 105. Notes 106. The One-Hand Warde...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 101-104
20 Sep 2021
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Chapters 101-104: The Men in Black take an interest in our murderhobos, and Ninjas take over the podcast For next week — Our First Retrospective! Wi...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 97-100
13 Sep 2021
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Chapters 97-100: Unmoored From Realtime For next week — 101-104 101. PPROM 102. The Adventures of Valencia the Red 103. Contract 104. Consolation Ca...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 93-96
06 Sep 2021
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Chapters 93-96: Murder-Ghandi Rides Again! Shaping Exercises podcast (or direct RSS) The Legend of Murder-Ghandi How The West Was Won The Bechdel Test...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 89-92
30 Aug 2021
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Chapters 89-92: Seriously Competative Professional Readers For next week — 93-96 93. Bottle Episode 94. Grayscale 95. Time Enough 96. A Portrait of ...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 84-88
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chapters 84-88: Descent Thomas Eliot’s translations of The Enchiridion of Epictetus Ron’s Not Dumb video Sword of Good (and audio in two p...
Steven’s Notes Ch 77-79
17 Aug 2021
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These are Steven’s Notes for chapters 77-79. Usually they are only published on the Patreon feed, but we got to 35 Patrons, and Steven liked thi...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 80-83
16 Aug 2021
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Chapters 80-83: This Episode Really Could Have Been Shorter For next week — 84-88 84. The Party Line 85. The Great Train Robbery 86. Headwater 87. D...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 77-79
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chapters 77-79: Is Joon the DM? Is Batgirl Catwoman?? Are insects videogame characters??? Moonstruck Bound Playing Roy from Rick and Morty The Time Lo...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 72-76
02 Aug 2021
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Chapters 72-76: Pitch Meeting References Are Tight! Zombie Movies that can’t say Zombie Utopia, LOL? by Jamie Wahls For next week — 77-79 77. ...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 68-71
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chapters 68-71: Making a Compelling Case for Non-Infanticide Scott Alexander’s post about how much the world could accomplish by giving 10% to e...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 64-67
19 Jul 2021
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Chapters 64-67: What Are The Rules? The Rational Fiction episode of The Bayesian Conspiracy For next week — 68-71 68. Seeing Red 69. In Mutual Con...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 60-63
12 Jul 2021
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Chapters 60-63: Prison Break The Rational Fiction episode of The Bayesian Conspiracy For next week — 64-67 64. In Which Juniper Stares At His Charac...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 56-59
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chapters 56-59: Steven is Super Bummed For next week — 60-63 60. Aggressive Negotiations 61. Animus 62. Drift 63. The Chemical History of a Candle C...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 53-55 & The Council of Arches
28 Jun 2021
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Chapters 53-55: Escaping God For next week — 56-59 56. Vacation Vocations 57. Place Your Figs 58. Panopticon 59. All the Myriad Ways Cakoluchiam’s...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 49-52
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chapters 49-52: Gaming God For next week — Chapters 53-55 & The Council of Arches 53. A Tiptoe Through the Tulips 54. Looper 55. Bond Girl The C...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 45-48
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chapters 45-48: The Dude Abides For next week — Chapters 49-52 49. Math.random() 50. Copse and Robbers 51. Blood in the Water 52. Culmination Cakolu...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 41-44
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chapters 41-44: Wherein Zencastr records from the wrong microphone for Eneasz, despite saying it’s the right one, and Eneasz’s audio sound...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 37-40
31 May 2021
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Chapters 37-40: Eneasz Flickers In and Out of Reality Suddenly John Mulaney For next week — Chapters 41-44 41. Truth and Reconciliation 42. A Pleasa...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 34-36
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chapters 34-36: If You Choose Torture Over Dust Specks But Then Rewind Time, Did It Really Make A Sound? Mentioned on show: Yudkowsky’s Guide to...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 30-33
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chapters 30-33: Cranking the Meta Up a Level Mentioned on show: The essay about reading – “Learn to Read, Kid, But Don’t Fall In Lov...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 26-29
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chapters 26-29: The Ballad of the Most Badass Dude On Aerb For next week — Chapters 30-33 30. Plot Relevant 31. The Loyal Elf 32. Be Still My Heart ...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 22-25
03 May 2021
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Chapters 22-25: Listening To This Episode Is a Cut-Scene For next week — Chapters 26-29 26. Superman 27. Fears 28. The Impish Inn 29. Greychapel Cak...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 19-21
26 Apr 2021
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Chapters 19-21: You’re Fuckin With My Mind, Maaaaan For next week — Chapters 22-25 22. Rolling Need 23. Siege 24. Like a Glove 25. Rocket Man ...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 16-18
19 Apr 2021
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Chapters 16-18: I Could Believe Everything Up Until There Was No Boner For next week — Chapters 19-21 19. Montage! 20. Desert Course 21. Cliff Racer...
Amazing Man 2: Love Conquors All
16 Apr 2021
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Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 13-15
12 Apr 2021
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Chapters 13-15: Blowing Right Through Book One For next week — Chapters 16-18 Steven’s Predictions – Everything is a Clue Worth the Candle can b...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 9-12
05 Apr 2021
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Chapters 9-12: Apprehended by These Fuckbags For next week — Chapters 13-15 Steven’s Predictions – Everything is a Clue Worth the Candle can be ...
The Rememberers
02 Apr 2021
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Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 6-8
29 Mar 2021
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Chapters 6-8: A Hell of a Revelation For next week — Chapters 9-12. Lindsey Ellis’s video about Megan Fox’s Transformers character as wr...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 44: Joah
26 Mar 2021
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Full text at What Lies Dreaming.com The End. If you enjoyed this, please consider supporting the author by purchasing a copy. Failing that, recommend...
Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 3-5
22 Mar 2021
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Chapters 3-5: First Blood For next week — Chapters 6-8. Steven’s Predictions – Everything is a Clue Worth the Candle can be read at ...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 43: Andreas
19 Mar 2021
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Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 1-2
15 Mar 2021
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Chapters 1 – 2: Quest Accepted Steven mentioned this video Apparently the Captain Nintendo Princess was a brunette! All this time she’s be...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 42: Marcus Verus
12 Mar 2021
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Not Everything Is A Clue – Intro Hype!
08 Mar 2021
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Steven’s next analysis podcast will be reading Alexander Wales’s “Worth The Candle” with Eneasz Brodski. They prepare their ey...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 41: Joah
05 Mar 2021
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We Want MoR Superman – Final
01 Mar 2021
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Lex makes his decision for all of humanity. Thank you for listening everyone! We had a lot fun doing this. :) Original chapters, written by Alexander ...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 40: Andreas, Joah, Marcus Verus
26 Feb 2021
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We Want MoR Superman – Chapters 11 and 12
22 Feb 2021
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Masks are coming off as the end approaches… Next episode we will be covering chapter 13, the final chapter. Original chapters, written by Alexan...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 39: Joah
19 Feb 2021
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We Want MoR Superman – Chapters 9 and 10
15 Feb 2021
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Uh oh. Someone has gone and killed Martha Kent. I’m sure Superman will take it well. Next episode we will be covering chapters 11 and 12. Origin...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 38: Marcus Verus
12 Feb 2021
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We Want MoR Superman – Chapters 7 and 8
08 Feb 2021
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Superman is showing psychological strain and Lex sends moles to Smallville. Next episode we will be covering chapters 9 and 10. Original chapters, wri...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 37: Joah
05 Feb 2021
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We Want MoR Superman – Chapters 5 and 6
01 Feb 2021
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Superman has a day job. Next episode we will be covering chapters 7 and 8. Original chapters, written by Alexander Wales, can be read here or on fanfi...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 36: Andreas
29 Jan 2021
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We Want MoR Superman – Chapters 3 and 4
25 Jan 2021
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Lex escalates his game against Superman. Next episode we will be covering chapters 5 and 6. Original chapters, written by Alexander Wales, can be read...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 35: Marcus Verus
22 Jan 2021
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We Want MoR Superman – Chapters 1 and 2
18 Jan 2021
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In this episode we dive into the world of 1930s Metropolis, where a strange man in a shiny suit has appeared from nowhere and begins thwarting violent...
WWMoR – Metropolitan Man Announcement
11 Jan 2021
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Join Steven and Brian for a short adventure into another Rational Fic – The Metropolitan Man by Alexander Wales! As always, be sure to check out...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 34: Joah
08 Jan 2021
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What Lies Dreaming – Ch 33: Andreas
01 Jan 2021
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What Lies Dreaming – Ch 32: Marcus Verus
25 Dec 2020
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We Want MoR – The One with Eliezer Yudkowsky
21 Dec 2020
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For our final and ultimate episode, we are joined by Eneasz Brodski, Matt Freeman, Eliezer Yudkowsky! We had a great time producing this show for the ...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 31: Joah Verus
18 Dec 2020
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We Want MoR – Chapter 122
14 Dec 2020
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Thank you to everyone for listening. We had a lot of fun doing this show. Something to protect Next episode we’ll have our final retro. :) Origi...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 30: Andreas
10 Dec 2020
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We Want MoR – Chapters 119-121
07 Dec 2020
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Final Revelations Next episode we’ll be covering the final chapter, 122! Original chapters, written by Eliezer Yudkowsky, can be read here and t...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 29: Marcus Verus
04 Dec 2020
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We Want MoR – Chapters 116-118
30 Nov 2020
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The Power the Dark Lord Knows Not Next episode we’ll be covering chapters 119, 120 and 121! Original chapters, written by Eliezer Yudkowsky, can...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 28: Andreas
27 Nov 2020
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We Want MoR – Chapters 114 and 115
23 Nov 2020
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Beneath the moonlight glints a tiny fragment of silver, a fraction of a line… (black robes, falling) …blood spills out in litres, and some...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 27: Joah
20 Nov 2020
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We Want MoR – Chapters 112 and 113
16 Nov 2020
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THIS IS YOUR FINAL EXAM Next episode we’ll be covering chapters 114 and 115! Original chapters, written by Eliezer Yudkowsky, can be read here a...
What Lies Dreaming – Ch 26: Andreas
13 Nov 2020
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