I’d love an interview about Planecrash also, especially if both Eliezer and linta participated. I’ve read the whole thing twice but it’s been a while, so exact topics don’t spring readily to mind, but I recall while reading (esp. the second time) having tons of questions about the writing process.
Generally, I’m curious to know about the collaboration between the authors. Glowfic in general usually gives the vibe of being made-up-as-it-goes-along, and that each author has autonomy over their own contributions. But the sections between the gods, for example, seem to demonstrate that a plan was known to both EY and linta relatively early on. Curious to understand how premeditated the story was, how much the two of them communicated with each other while writing other than via the tags themselves, whether the overall vision was driven more by one or the other of them or was genuinely 50⁄50, etc.
Also, the idea that Everettian interp. of QM precludes total utilitarianism is one of the most interesting ideas about either physics or ethics I’ve ever encountered in fiction. Is that an original idea of Eliezer’s, or is there prior literature? I’d love a writeup of that idea I could share with people that is less high-context than a brief passage more than a million words into an obscure webfiction.
If this seems like a thing that might happen someday, I’ll reread some passages so I can write more specific questions.
Add’l question: In the Sorting Hat chapter, there was originally an authors’s note stating that if anyone could guess what would happen at the start of the next chapter, Eliezer would tell them “the rest of the plot” (might not be the exact phrasing, can’t remember). As far as I know, that went unredeemed, but if he had needed to pay out, what would he have said? Curious to know how the “rest of the plot” was conceptualized in his head as of chapter, like, 9 or something.