podcast – The Methods of Rationality Podcast
Episodes
Crystal Society 12
05 Sep 2018
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What Use is Free Will Original Text Continue reading
Crystal Society 11
22 Aug 2018
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Conspirators Original Text From the announcements — Shut Up And Do The Impossible: The rational fiction online anthology   Continue reading
Crystal Society 10
08 Aug 2018
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Revelation Original Text Continue reading
Crystal Society 9
25 Jul 2018
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A hypothetical situation Original Text Continue reading
Crystal Society 8
11 Jul 2018
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What is this “humor” you speak of? Original Text Continue reading
Crystal Society 7
27 Jun 2018
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Enter Myrodyn Original Text Continue reading
Crystal Society 6
13 Jun 2018
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Please. Help. Us. Original Text Continue reading
Crystal Society 5
30 May 2018
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Upgrades Original Text Continue reading
Crystal Society 4
16 May 2018
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Ethics and Sacrifice Original Text Continue reading
Crystal Society 3
02 May 2018
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Kissing vs blow-jobs Original Text Continue reading
Crystal Society 2
18 Apr 2018
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This is why I exist Original Text Continue reading
Crystal Society 1
04 Apr 2018
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Birth Original Text Continue reading
(CS 1) Production Notes
04 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Well, that hiatus went far longer than expected! I’ve had a lot of changes in my life in the last year that kept pushing this project further an...
Host
07 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An End To Suffering Purchase “Red Legacy and Other Stories” (or leave a review) here! Original Text Author’s Notes (some spoilers) Continu...
Red Legacy
26 Jul 2017
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At Any Cost Purchase “Red Legacy and Other Stories” here! Original Text Continue reading
Instruments of Destruction
12 Jul 2017
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  Witness the firepower of this… almost… fully operational battle station… Original Text Jim Hay’s SoundCloud page, and G...
Interview – Alexander Wales (The Metropolitan Man)
28 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Interview with the author Alexander Wales’s other fiction is here in particular – Glim Warden As always seems to occur, I forgot to ask a...
MM 17 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 13 pt 2
14 Jun 2017
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Finale, part 3 Original Text Continue reading
MM 16 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 13 pt 1
31 May 2017
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Finale, part 2 Original Text Continue reading
MM 15 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 12
17 May 2017
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Finale Original Text Continue reading
MM 14 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 11 (part 2)
03 May 2017
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Actions and Consequences Original Text Continue reading
MM 13 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 10 (part 2) & Chapter 11 (part 1)
19 Apr 2017
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Actions and Consequences Original Text Continue reading
MM 12 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 10 (part 1)
05 Apr 2017
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A Vast and Terrifying Enemy Original Text Continue reading
MM 11 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 9
22 Mar 2017
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Dust to Dust Rationality: From AI to Zombies – The Podcast Original Text Continue reading
MM 10 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 8 (part 2)
08 Mar 2017
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Peeling Back The Veil (part 2) Original Text Special thanks to Last Call Romance (and on Facebook). I had a short story published in the March/April i...
MM 9 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 8 (part 1)
22 Feb 2017
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Peeling Back The Veil (part 1) Original Text Continue reading
MM 8 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 7
08 Feb 2017
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Choices [content warning: violence against children & sexual abuse] Original Text Continue reading
MM 7 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 6
25 Jan 2017
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Private Wars Original Text Continue reading
MM 6 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 5 (part 2)
11 Jan 2017
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A Stopped Clock (part 2) Original Text Continue reading
MM 5 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 5 (part 1)
28 Dec 2016
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A Stopped Clock (part 1) Original Text Continue reading
MM 4 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 4
14 Dec 2016
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Like Clockwork Original Text Continue reading
Interview – Ada Palmer (Too Like The Lightning)
08 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Interview with Ada Palmer, author of Too Like The Lightning Mentioned by Ada: * Jacques the Fatalist, by Denis Diderot * Candide, by Voltaire * the ...
MM 3 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 3
30 Nov 2016
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The All-Seeing Eye Original Text Continue reading
MM 2 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 2
16 Nov 2016
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Dissemination of Information Original Text Continue reading
MM 1 – The Metropolitan Man, Chapter 1
02 Nov 2016
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Literally Incredible Original Text SFX and Music credits will be in Production Notes from now on. Continue reading
Of All Possible Worlds
05 Oct 2016
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Thoughts in the mind of God. Content Warnings: Violence, Cruelty to animals, Rape Original Text Continue reading
Interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky
16 Mar 2016
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This is the third episode of a new podcast I’m involved in – The Bayesian Conspiracy. www.thebayesianconspiracy.com Continue reading
Three Bodies at Mitanni
27 Jan 2016
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“This is what I want. Everything is fine.” Original Text not available online Continue reading
Afterward & The Hugos
06 Jan 2016
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The Hugo Awards Main Page Registration Here List of HPMoR continuation fic and related fic (scroll down to “HPMoR fanfiction” section for...
122c – Something to Protect: Hermione Granger
30 Dec 2015
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The End and The Beginning Original Text Continue reading
122b – Something to Protect: Hermione Granger
16 Dec 2015
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Doing what we can Original Text Continue reading
122a – Something to Protect: Hermione Granger
02 Dec 2015
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Threading the needle’s eye of Destiny Original Text Continue reading
120 & 121 – Something to Protect: Draco Malfoy & Something to Protect: Severus Snape
18 Nov 2015
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New Beginnings Original Text Continue reading
119b – Something to Protect: Albus Dumbledore
04 Nov 2015
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Voldemort posthumously saves the world, for the first time Original Text Continue reading
119a – Something to Protect: Albus Dumbledore
21 Oct 2015
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Last Words Original Text Continue reading
117 & 118 – Something to Protect: Minerva McGonagall & Something to Protect: Professor Quirrell
07 Oct 2015
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In Memoriam Original Text Continue reading
115b & 116 – Shut Up and Do The Impossible Pt 2 & Aftermath: Something to Protect, Pt 0
23 Sep 2015
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Guiding the Narrative Original Text Continue reading
114 & 115a – Shut Up and Do The Impossible, Pt 1 & Pt 2
09 Sep 2015
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(black robes, falling) Original Text   Continue reading
113 – Final Exam
26 Aug 2015
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Final Exam Original Text The restrictions list in Production Notes (back one post) Continue reading
112 – Failure, Pt2
19 Aug 2015
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The Apocalypse of Potter Original Text Continue reading
111b – Failure, Pt1
12 Aug 2015
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The Sparkly Unicorn Princess reborn Original Text Continue reading
111a – Failure, Pt1
29 Jul 2015
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The Dark Lord reborn Original Text Continue reading
109b & 110 – Reflections, Pt 1 & Pt 2
15 Jul 2015
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Surprise, Mugglefugger! Original Text Continue reading
109a – Reflections, Pt 1
01 Jul 2015
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Noitilov detalo partxe tnere hoc ruoy tu becafruoy ton wo hsi Original Text Continue reading
108c – The Truth, Pt 5, Answers and Riddles
17 Jun 2015
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Why Voldemort? Original Text Hey, I briefly appear in this music video parody a group of my friends made. :) Continue reading
108b – The Truth, Pt 5, Answers and Riddles
03 Jun 2015
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Plots upon plots Original Text Continue reading
108a – The Truth, Pt 5, Answers and Riddles
20 May 2015
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Origins Original Text Continue reading
106 & 107 – The Truth, Pt 3 & 4
06 May 2015
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Speed-running Dumbledore’sThird Floor Corridor Original Text Continue reading
105 – The Truth, Pt 2
22 Apr 2015
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Bargaining with the Devil Original Text Continue reading
104b – The Truth, Pt 1, Riddles and Answers
08 Apr 2015
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The Watcher in the Dark Original Text   Continue reading
104a – The Truth, Pt 1, Riddles and Answers
25 Mar 2015
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Thresholds Rationality: From AI to Zombies is available here Original Text Continue reading
Red Legacy, part 2
11 Mar 2015
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Madness? This is Arkhipov! Original Text Continue reading
Red Legacy, part 1
25 Feb 2015
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Trying to do science in a hostile environment. Original Text Continue reading
103 – Tests
11 Feb 2015
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Reality isn’t fair Original Text Continue reading
sam513 & Valuable Humans In Transit
07 Jan 2015
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Two stories by Sam Hughes. Sam Hughes writes and blogs at qntm.org, and may be best know for Ra. Note: I AM PUBLISHED!! Asimov’s Science Ficti...
Essays 4
17 Dec 2014
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Strengths and Weaknesses Full Text: Your Strength as a Rationalist Universal Fire Fake Explanations Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger) Conti...
Words of Love, Soft and Tender
03 Dec 2014
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Strange new creatures in the forest Original Text   Continue reading
Nineteen Neighty-Four (part 2 of 2)
19 Nov 2014
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Everything Falls Apart Hear more of Ginny’s singing here (see production notes for more details). Original Text Continue reading
Nineteen Neighty-Four (part 1 of 2)
05 Nov 2014
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Seeds of Insurrection As mentioned in the episode – Floornight, by nostalgebraist. Original Text Continue reading
Essays 3
22 Oct 2014
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The Measure of All Things The Worm Audiobook Project! Joy In The Merely Real complete text Mundane Magic complete text Thou Art Godshatter complete ...
Trust In God, or The Riddle of Kyon (part 2 of 2)
08 Oct 2014
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Forcing the Hand of God Original Text Continue reading
Trust In God, or The Riddle of Kyon (part 1 of 2)
24 Sep 2014
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An existential problem Original Text Continue reading
Bloopers
10 Sep 2014
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Screwin’ up our lines. Warning: bad language, and juvenile humor. Continue reading
Voice Actors Panel
03 Sep 2014
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Recording of the Voice Actors Panel from MALcon 2014, with the voices of Hermione Granger, Severus Snape, and myself. Still no production notes this w...
102 – Caring
20 Aug 2014
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The Long Price Original Text Continue reading
Essays 2
06 Aug 2014
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On Gods – real and otherwise Religion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable complete text An Alien God complete text Continue reading
Comes The Huntsman
23 Jul 2014
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Comes The Huntsman Original Text Rachael Acks blogs at katsudon.net. She was most recently published in LightSpeed’s Women Destroy Science Fict...
The Study of Anglophysics, part 2 (of 2)
09 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The Doom That Came to Adwellia Original Text Scott Alexander blogs at SlateStarCodex.com, and it’s still my favorite blog. Amazing insights, shar...
The Study of Anglophysics, part 1 (of 2)
25 Jun 2014
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The Language of God Original Text Scott Alexander blogs at SlateStarCodex.com, and it’s currently my favorite blog. Amazing insights, sharp humo...
Three Dialogs
11 Jun 2014
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Original Texts: Use The Try Harder, Luke The Vulcan Your Vulcan Could Sound Like, If He Wasn’t Made of Straw The Last Temptation of Christ Conti...
Earthfic
28 May 2014
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It’s not about people in 2026, or skinks, or Martians. And the dog does NOT talk. Original Text Earthfic was written by Alicorn. It can be fou...
Essays 1
14 May 2014
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And that’s why we have Methods of Rationality. Expecting Short Inferential Distances complete text Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism complete...
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Zombie, part 2 (of 2)
30 Apr 2014
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In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war Original Text Continue reading
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Zombie, part 1 (of 2)
16 Apr 2014
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Hello Hermione my old friend Original Text Continue reading
101 – Precautionary Measures, Pt 2
02 Apr 2014
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Cold Equations Original Text Continue reading
100b – Precautionary Measures, Pt 1
19 Mar 2014
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Everyone who is supposed to protect you is crazy, and you can’t ever rely on them to get anything right. Original Text Continue reading
99 & 100a – Roles, Aftermath & Precautionary Measures, Pt 1
05 Mar 2014
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The Forbidden Forest is forbidden for a reason Original Text Continue reading
Three Worlds Collide – Part 8 (of 8)
19 Feb 2014
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Epilogue: Atonement Original Text   Continue reading
Three Worlds Collide – Part 6 & 7 (of 8)
05 Feb 2014
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Normal Ending: Last Tears & True Ending: Sacrificial Fire Original Text Continue reading
Three Worlds Collide – Part 5 (of 8)
22 Jan 2014
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Three Worlds Decide Original Text Continue reading
Three Worlds Collide – Part 4 (of 8)
08 Jan 2014
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Interlude with the Confessor Original Text Continue reading
Three Worlds Collide – Part 3 (of 8)
25 Dec 2013
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The Super Happy People Original Text Continue reading
Three Worlds Collide – Part 2 (of 8)
11 Dec 2013
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War and/or Peace Original Text Continue reading
Three Worlds Collide – Part 1 (of 8)
27 Nov 2013
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The Baby-Eating Aliens Original Text Continue reading
98 – Roles, Final
13 Nov 2013
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The Hogwarts Coup Original Text Continue reading
97 – Roles, Part 8
30 Oct 2013
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Crossing Lines Original Text Continue reading
96 – Roles, Part 7
16 Oct 2013
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Not alone Original Text Continue reading
95 – Roles, Part 6
02 Oct 2013
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On Caring Original Text Continue reading
94 – Roles, Part 5
18 Sep 2013
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Destroying your enemy’s ability to make war Original Text Continue reading
92 & 93 – Roles, Part 3 & 4
04 Sep 2013
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Neglected Allies Original Text Continue reading