Keltham's Lectures in Project Lawful
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Contents
Validity
Evolution
Negotiation
Probability 1
Probability 2
Utility
Probable utility
Cooperation 1
Cooperation 2
Governance
To hell with science
To earth with science
Chemistry
How to relate to beliefs
The alien maths of dath ilan
What the truth can destroy
Lecture on wants
Acknowledgement
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(Not an April fools' joke)
If anyone wants to return to one of Keltham's lectures, here's a list with links to all the lectures. In principle, one could also read these without having read the rest of Project Lawful aka Planecrash, I am not sure how easy it would be to follow though. I included short excerpts, so you can also find the sections in the e-book.
Happy reading/listening:
Validity
Podcast Episode 9, minute 26
Keltham takes their scrambling-time as a pause in which to think. It's been a long time, at least by the standards of his total life lived so far, since the very basics were explained to him.
Evolution
Podcast Episode 15, minute 1
To make sure everybody starts out on the same page, Keltham will quickly summarize earlier conversations for the benefit of any harem members who might not have been in hearing range for it.
Negotiation
Podcast Episode 39, minute 8
"Never mind. For a start, today, I'm going to try to quickly review the way that dath ilani learn about negotiation -"
Probability 1
Podcast Episode 73, minute 12
So now, hopefully, they're getting to the good part! Previous stuff was just sort of trying to show you what Law is at all, like with Validity.
Probability 2
Podcast Episode 82
"Greetings, my esteemed co-researchers.
Utility
Podcast Episode 107, minute 24
After that, he's got the time for another hour of Law before dinner, and after a Lesser Restoration the energy too, so next up is Utility.
Probable utility
Podcast Episode 110, minute 13
In his morning lecture, Keltham makes a further run at Utility
Cooperation 1
Podcast Episode 112, minute 10
Keltham, then, will jump ahead of Decision, to a lesser fragment of Coordination.
Cooperation 2
Podcast Episode 117, minute 6
So today he's going to try a lecture in Baseline, approaching some of the mathematics of Decision as is more complicated than the simple cases.
References: The Cartoon Guide to Löb's Theorem [LW · GW]
Governance
Podcast Episode 120, minute 1
Keltham takes time to hang a first-level wizard spell, no point in missing any practice there either, and then announces an optional lecture on Civilization's Governance.
To hell with science
Podcast Episode 128
The library-classroom is more crowded, now, but not overcrowded; it was built with this in mind.
To earth with science
Podcast Episode 132
Meanwhile in a totally different continuum - insofar as the word 'meanwhile' can mean anything when two continua are causally disconnected - which, in fact, it can't.
Chemistry
Podcast Episode 134
Actual chemistry lecture this morning!
How to relate to beliefs
Podcast Episode 136, minute 9
Keepers-only lecture to Meritxell, Pilar, and Asmodia.
References: A Fable of Science and Politics [LW · GW], Belief in Belief [LW · GW]
The alien maths of dath ilan
Podcast Episode 138
The Rule of Succession! This is sort of picking up the topic from last time about Science!, how to do statistical inference.
What the truth can destroy
Podcast Episode 146
From one perspective, it's surprising that the first Keltham-induced break outside of Carissa Sevar occurs inside of Pilar Pineda.
References: The bottom line [LW · GW]
Lecture on wants
Podcast Episode 148, minute 42
Keltham holds forth today on the answer to a question Pilar asked him a while ago, about dath ilan's view on what people should want, and how they should want it.
Acknowledgement
Thanks to @Towards_Keeperhood [LW · GW] for paying me to compile this list.
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