I noticed that you listed “Salamander” as rationalist/rationalist adjacent fiction. I’ve never heard of it before, and Google doesn’t seem to know either. What is this?
I’m guessing it’s this. Its author (a libertarian economist) sometimes comments on, and is sometimes mentioned in, Scott’s blog posts. (There’s a David Friedman with an LW account but whether or not it’s the same person it doesn’t seem like he’s ever posted anything.)
I have now posted something, so I suppose I must at some point have set up an LW account. I haven’t read Ra so have no idea if they are similar. Commenters on my fiction sometimes complain that the characters are too rational, which I suppose could make it rationalist adjacent, which I think also describes me.
Scott reviewed two of my books on SSC, but they were both nonfiction.
Yep, it’s the David Friedman book. It’s very roughly a bit like Ra, but instead of a swerve into high octane space magic it has some awkward wizards who express affection through academic research.
I noticed that you listed “Salamander” as rationalist/rationalist adjacent fiction. I’ve never heard of it before, and Google doesn’t seem to know either. What is this?
I’m guessing it’s this. Its author (a libertarian economist) sometimes comments on, and is sometimes mentioned in, Scott’s blog posts. (There’s a David Friedman with an LW account but whether or not it’s the same person it doesn’t seem like he’s ever posted anything.)
I have now posted something, so I suppose I must at some point have set up an LW account. I haven’t read Ra so have no idea if they are similar. Commenters on my fiction sometimes complain that the characters are too rational, which I suppose could make it rationalist adjacent, which I think also describes me.
Scott reviewed two of my books on SSC, but they were both nonfiction.
Yep, it’s the David Friedman book. It’s very roughly a bit like Ra, but instead of a swerve into high octane space magic it has some awkward wizards who express affection through academic research.