1:00 “She’s just signalling virtue”
1:28 “I’m an aspiring rationalist”
I actually wanted to use Goedel Escher Bach, but I didn’t have a physical copy at hand. :/ I used “The Etched City” by KJ NOT Parker. I love KJ Parker’s fiction, altho in retrospect I think the Engineer trilogy would probably be closest to rationalist fic.
ETA: Well I’ll be damned… turns out that KJ Parker and KJ Bishop are not the same person! KJ Parker wrote the Engineer Trilogy. KJ Bishop wrote The Etched City. They’re both good, and the writing style is so similar I had thought they were the same person and confused them. It’s The Etched City that I’m holding.
The Engineer trilogy (though excellent) is more straw-rationalist than rationalist. That is, I would like to think that nobody I know is anything like Vaatzes.
Yes. :) But I meant rationalist in the sense that it is knowledge and the use of creative thinking and deep planning that drives the plot, rather than physical or political force. Those two things are certainly used, but they are used as tools rather than as plot resolution mechanisms.
That’s very funny, but there are a couple of bits I couldn’t make out.
1:00 (She’s just [soundsmudge] 1:28 ([smudge ending with ts]
What’s the book at 1:05? I realize that isn’t the point, but it might be some typical LWish book, and I can’t tell.
1:00 “She’s just signalling virtue” 1:28 “I’m an aspiring rationalist”
I actually wanted to use Goedel Escher Bach, but I didn’t have a physical copy at hand. :/ I used “The Etched City” by KJ NOT Parker. I love KJ Parker’s fiction, altho in retrospect I think the Engineer trilogy would probably be closest to rationalist fic.
ETA: Well I’ll be damned… turns out that KJ Parker and KJ Bishop are not the same person! KJ Parker wrote the Engineer Trilogy. KJ Bishop wrote The Etched City. They’re both good, and the writing style is so similar I had thought they were the same person and confused them. It’s The Etched City that I’m holding.
The Etched City isn’t by KJ Parker.
The Engineer trilogy (though excellent) is more straw-rationalist than rationalist. That is, I would like to think that nobody I know is anything like Vaatzes.
Yes. :) But I meant rationalist in the sense that it is knowledge and the use of creative thinking and deep planning that drives the plot, rather than physical or political force. Those two things are certainly used, but they are used as tools rather than as plot resolution mechanisms.