Welcome back to PKD! Brian and Steven wrap up their reading of Man in the High Castle with the last 3 chapters. Things get exciting, then surreal, then weird, then even weirder, and everyone lives happily ever after. Come back in a week (or two) for the first two chapters of The Three Stigmata of of Palmer Eldritch!…

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Welcome back to PKD! Brian and Steven continue their reading of Man in the High Castle, chapters 11 and 12. Stuff is getting real, people are getting shot, the Nazis are coming! Come back next week for the last 3 chapters!By The Methods of Rationality Podcast

Welcome back to PKD! Brian and Steven continue their reading of Man in the High Castle. Tensions continue to rise, super secrets are hinted at, and Julianna is planning to visit the guy who’s name is the the name of the thing (she wants to visit the Man in the High Castle). Come back next week for chapters 11 and 12!…

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Welcome back to PKD! Brian and Steven continue their reading of Man in the High Castle. Couple of not too exciting chapters, but tension seem to be rising. Couple back next week for chapters 9 and 10!By The Methods of Rationality Podcast

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Welcome back to PKD! Brian and Steven continue our reading of Man in the High Castle. We get the name of the thing in this one and everyone loses their mind when the German Chancellor dies. Come back next week for chapters 7 and 8!By The Methods of Rationality Podcast

AskWho is bringing Significant Digits into audio format via AI narration. The first episode is live today, and he’ll be doing one a week until completion. He’s using an AI-clone of my (Eneasz’s) voice for the bulk of it, which caused me some small amount of existential panic you can read about here. But it’s done with my permission and I’m very hap…

No new episode this week, sorry folks. Come back next week for chapters 5 and 6! Link to the John Stewart clipBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

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Welcome back to PKD! Brian and Steven continue our reading of Man in the High Castle. Lot’s of fun plot lines get started in these chapters. Come back next week for chapters 5 and 6!By The Methods of Rationality Podcast

Welcome back to PKD! Brian and Steven kick off our second book, Man in the High Castle! So far it’s lots of fun, even if the world is a complete nightmare.By The Methods of Rationality Podcast

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Welcome back to PKD, the show where Brian and Steven dive into the weird world and weirder mind of Phillip K. Dick! In this episode, we wrap up Ubik and talk about some of the cool, mind-bending stuff it makes you think about. Come back next week for the first two chapters of Man in the High Castle!By The Methods of Rationality Podcast

Welcome back to PKD, the show where Brian and Steven dive into the weird world and weirder mind of Phillip K. Dick! In this episode, the weirdness keeps on coming! Come back next week for the last 4 chapters! Continue readingBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: Honesty researcher Francesca Gino fabricated data, took the bloggers who revealed it to court. Judge dismissed the suit 33 bomb threats in Springfield since the debate Harris is now 53% in…

Welcome back to PKD, the show where Brian and Steven dive into the weird world and weirder mind of Phillip K. Dick! In this episode, things are getting super weird. Are they dead? Is everyone dead? Come back next week for chapters 11, 12, and 13! Note: I’m giving myself… Continue readingBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

Welcome back to PKD, the show where Brian and Steven dive into the weird world and weirder mind of Phillip K. Dick! In this episode, the crew gets to the moon and shit goes sideways right away. Come back next week for chapters 8, 9, and 10! Continue readingBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

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Welcome back to PKD, the show where Brian and Steven dive into the weird world and weirder mind of Phillip K. Dick! In this episode we assemble the crew with chapters 3, 4, and 5. Next week we’ll see what this rag-tag group of meta humans gets up to in… Continue readingBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

Welcome back to PKD, the show where Brian and Steven dive into the weird world and weirder mind of Phillip K. Dick! We started off light with just the first couple of chapters to get our sea legs. Next week we’re reading chapters 3, 4 and 5. Continue readingBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

Eneasz is at Burning Man, so Wes and David are joined by Regan Arntz-Gray to keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Regan’s Substack Moral Mayhem podcast Regan on ex-Twitter Support us on Substack! News discussed: Injunction issued against noncompete ban RFK Jr. dropped out and endorsed Tr…

Welcome the show where Brian and Steven dive into the weird world and weirder mind of Phillip K. Dick. This is an introduction where Brian explains a bit about who PDK was and gets up prepped to start our first of three of his books. We’re starting with Ubik, chapters… Continue readingBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

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Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: Shelby County Board of Education has agreed to commit to fair and equal treatment for all organizations moving forward and pay over $15,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs Most of our initial…

Buckle up as Eneasz and Steven discuss some of the feedback about this short series and then have an untamed discussion about how capitalism/capitalists are portrayed in popular culture full of all kinds of digressions and random thoughts. We hope you enjoy it! :) Continue readingBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: Ilya Sutskever has started his own AI company the Mona art museum trolls Alec Baldwin case dismissed due to prosecutorial misconduct Trump shooting Trump says his convention speech will be…

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Steven and Eneasz wrap up their discussion on the Fallout TV show and plan out future content. Continue readingBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

Enjoy the 7th episode of Uranium Fever! Everyone’s always trying to get some head. In this case it’s more literal. Continue readingBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

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Our heroes get trapped by evil mutants! Plus we get some ghoulishly awesome flashbacks from before the end of the world. Don’t forget to check out AskWho’s awesome Substack. Eneasz recommended this reading of a book review of the Old Testament and it’s awesome. Continue readingBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

Eneasz is too cool to be on the podcast this week, so Yassine Meskhout joined Wes and David to keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: Gaza pier is already broken EV sales have plateaued at around 7% of all auto sales Biden executive order on immigrat…

Eneasz and Steven chat about the fifth episode of the Fallout tv show. Remember when we thought we’d keep these around 15 minutes each? Ha! Continue readingBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

This episode gets us back into awesome character stuff and we had a blast (bomb pun intended). Continue readingBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

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This was more of a plot moving episode and less of a deep diving conversation starter, but we still found some stuff to talk about. I hope you enjoy the transition between the main episode and the last few minutes – the sophisticated among you will get it. ;) Continue readingBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

Eneasz and Steven continue the discussion about the Fallout tv show and digress hard about the role of luck in our life circumstances. The outro song is from The Righteous Gemstones sung by Walton Goggins. :) Continue readingBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: Biden campaign will continue to use TikTok World Central Kitchen resumed aid in Gaza Hamas attacks humanitarian pier off Gaza coast during construction Erez Crossing between Gaza and Israe…

Eneasz and Steven wanted to chat about the new and awesome Fallout tv series. We were under the delusion we could keep this to like 15 minutes but you know us and that was never going to happen. Continue readingBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Note: Eneasz recorded himself on the wrong mic this episode, so his audio quality is terrible. Everyone yell at him! Support us on Substack! News discussed: Assassinated Iranian general at the embassy involved in 'planning and e…

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: IDF hits 3 world central kitchen cars, kills 7 paxlovid doesn't make a difference if you're fully vaxxed :( Florida abortion ban upheld, but ballot measure also approved abortion banned in…

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination Israel plans 1km wide (.6mile) buffer zone around entirety of gaza (pic) Chuck Schumer called for…

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: Alabama passed a law protecting IVF providers from liability Anti-abortion groups are not happy about it Putin threatens nukes if western troops used, again SCOTUS voted 9-0 to allow Trump…

Is the 2023 winner for animated short a brilliant work of satirical performance art, or just bad, or just good? Eneasz, Matt, and Jen have different opinions, and fortunately we totally decide which one is right. Watch it here Continue readingBy The Methods of Rationality Podcast

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: The Hugo Committee itself was responsible for the censorship, doing it voluntarily and preemptively! Intuitive Machines is now the first commercial outfit to put a spacecraft on the Moon. …

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: Natural Gas Ban doesn’t apply to countries that we have Free Trade Agreements with They’ve now read several pages of the Pompeii scrolls Gwern saw this coming. DC Circuit says Trump isn’t …

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: SCOTUS voted 5-4 to say Texas needs to let in the feds Texas is… not complying? Canadian highest court held that invoking of Emergency Act during trucker protest was unlawful Apple to have…

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: Claudine Gay resigned The IRS will waive penalty fees for people who failed to pay back taxes Texas seized control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, prevent Border Patrol agents from entering …