Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

This is an alternate universe story, where Petunia married a scientist. Harry enters the wizarding world armed with Enlightenment ideals and the experimental spirit. Updated every Wednesday morning.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 03: Parallel Knowledge Dimensions

Welcome back to PKD! Brian and Steven continue their exploration the layers of madness that is the mind of Philip K. Dick. Come back next week for chapters 7 and 8! Continue reading

01-06
01:25:38

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 02: Psychedelic Kindred Dreams

Welcome back to PKD! Brian and Steven continue their exploration of the real and surreal while enjoying some psychedelic plants. Come back next week for chapters 5 and 6! Continue reading

12-30
01:08:52

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 01: Pioneering Key Discourse

Welcome back to PKD! Brian and Steven dive deep into the Earth’s surface to survive the first two chapters of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch! Come back next week for chapters 3 and 4. Continue reading

12-23
58:48

Man in the High Castle 07: Plunge into Kindred Dimensions

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… Continue reading

12-09
01:51:52

Man in the High Castle 06: Persistence Knows Defiance

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! Continue reading

12-02
58:40

Man in the High Castle 05: Postmodern Kafkaesque Drive

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… Continue reading

11-25
01:09:26

Man in the High Castle 04: Post-Knowledge Dystopia

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! Continue reading

11-11
50:56

Man in the High Castle 03: Power Keeps Distorting

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! Continue reading

11-04
01:26:20

Significant Digits audio is here!

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… Continue reading

10-30
02:01

Man in the High Castle: No New Episode

No new episode this week, sorry folks. Come back next week for chapters 5 and 6! Link to the John Stewart clip Continue reading

10-28
02:33

Man in the High Castle 02: Politics Kill Dreams

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! Continue reading

10-21
54:03

Man in the High Castle 01: Parallel Kafkaesque Dystopia

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. Continue reading

10-14
56:25

Ubik 06: Pondering Kafkaesque Dimensions

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… Continue reading

10-07
01:21:44

Ubik 05: Probing Known Dimensions

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 reading

09-30
55:02

Ubik 04: Perception Kaleidoscope Dimension

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 reading

09-23
57:36

Ubik 03: Phantasmal Kinetics Discussion

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 reading

09-16
49:19

Ubik 02: Big (PK) Dick Energy

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 reading

09-09
01:12:10

Ubik 01: Psychic Key Discussions

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 reading

09-02
47:57

PKD – Ubik 00

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 reading

08-26
37:12

Fallout 09 – Uranium Fever Aftermath

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 reading

07-18
01:22:01

Nathaniel Cox

Gotta say, not a big fan of the SPROING SPROING SPROING noises. They interrupt the narrative to a too-large extent, I think.

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FloDaddy

I laughed out loud at “The standard counter-charm for a boggart is, of course, Fiendfyre”

08-23 Reply

Donna Moschello

Interesting concept but a regrettable lack of British accents

02-04 Reply

Joanna Janik

I am listening to your novels for a 3th time. It's great!

01-28 Reply

TheJanikx

great popcast :)

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