Keltham's Lectures in Project Lawful

post by Morpheus · 2025-04-01T10:39:47.973Z · LW · GW · 4 comments

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
None
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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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