{"id":1179,"date":"2013-09-18T01:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T07:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2013-09-17T10:16:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T16:16:30","slug":"94-production-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"(94) Production Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in the podcast, I will be appearing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcondenver.com\/\">Myths &amp; Legends Con<\/a> on Saturday, Sept 28<sup>th<\/sup>, at the Sheraton Denver Tech Center (7007 S. Clinton Street, Greenwood Village, CO). I\u2019ll be giving a presentation on Rationalist Fiction, Rationality, and HPMoR. I\u2019ll see if I can get someone to record it and put it on YouTube afterwards, but for anyone in the Denver area who would like to see me in person &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcondenver.com\/\">come on down<\/a>! Please feel free to come up to me and talk to me before or after, I\u2019ll be more than delighted to hang out and chat with anyone. And of course there\u2019s lots of other stuff to do as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(minor spoilers for the current chapter below)<\/p>\n<p>As I just had to write a short presentation on rationalist fiction it\u2019s right at the forefront of my mind. In my presentation I defined rationality as a systemized method for making good decisions, especially under uncertainty. The \u201crationalist\u201d part of the conflict really shines through again in this chapter, as The Enemy is now specifically attacking Harry\u2019s ability to make rational decisions. The hacking of the wards is a meta-attack, designed to make your opponent distrust his tools for gathering accurate knowledge about his situation; and even (in Harry\u2019s case) to doubt the very integrity of his own memories and mental processes. How many other works of fiction feature this sort of attack? Where \u201cdestroying your opponent\u2019s ability to make war\u201d is literally an assault on your opponent\u2019s basic epistemology? Not many. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in the podcast, I will be appearing at Myths &amp; Legends Con on Saturday, Sept 28th, at the Sheraton Denver Tech Center (7007 S. Clinton Street, Greenwood Village, CO). I\u2019ll be giving a presentation on Rationalist Fiction, Rationality, and HPMoR. I\u2019ll see if I can get someone to\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/?p=1179\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}