Not that I’ve seen. It’d be cool though. I think maybe you can see traces in people like Peter Watts, but if you take HPMOR as the defining example, I can’t think of anything.
I’m always found Stross (and to a lesser extent, Scalzi) to be fairly rationalist—in the sense that I don’t see anyone holding the idiot ball all that frequently. People do stupid things, but they tend not to miss the obvious ways of implementing their preferences.
Is anyone working on rationalist stand-alone fiction?
Actually, what I meant was “Is anyone in this community working on rationalist stand-alone fiction?”.
Not that I’ve seen. It’d be cool though. I think maybe you can see traces in people like Peter Watts, but if you take HPMOR as the defining example, I can’t think of anything.
Lee Child (the Jack Reacher series) presents a good bit of clear thinking.
I’m always found Stross (and to a lesser extent, Scalzi) to be fairly rationalist—in the sense that I don’t see anyone holding the idiot ball all that frequently. People do stupid things, but they tend not to miss the obvious ways of implementing their preferences.