Table of Contents (Fan-made)

This is a fan-made Table of Contents for the purposes of aiding navigation during the Bayesian Conspiracy's read-along podcast "It Makes Sense If You Understand Decision Theory" (hpmorpodcast.com). It should be free of spoilers, so comments and proposed edits should go to the draft on Google Docs, and this page will represent only the "finalized" entries.

	Section	Title	End of section (Read until…)	Words
Volume I – Mad Investor Chaos and the Woman of Asmodeus
	Prologue	Planecrash	End of tag	365
Book One: Places-People-Go-When-They-Are-Dead				25,292
	Chapter 1	Golarion	"Keltham…spent some very long minutes contemplating…[how] to have it not happen to him."	1,825
	Chapter 2	Equilibrium	"…two one-proton atoms and one eight-proton atom"	4,370
	Chapter 3	Steel	"'Pray'?"	2,178
	Chapter 4	Infinite Possibility Space	Keltham repeats six names. Note: IMSIYUDT Week 1 ends on "And she trots off to find the priest."	4,503
	Chapter 5	Surface Thoughts	He decides to check if he knows the answer.	4,216
	Interlude	Environmentalized Intrinsics	"People do it live at parties.)"	1,664
	Chapter 6	The True Meaning of Chaos	"Keltham was somewhat misinformed…"	2,943
	Chapter 7	Squirrel	End of conversation before "The priest stands up"	2,078
	Chapter 8	Presumption of Good Intentions	"…and they teleport."	1,515
Book Two: Customs				33,650
	Chapter 9	Syllables	"Keltham shall now attempt to explore…" Note: IMSIYUDT Week 2 ends on "It has plumbing!"	3,899
	Chapter 10	Spilled Ink	"EMERGENCY […] MEETING RIGHT NOW"	3,318
	Chapter 11	Common Knowledge	"WHAT. WHAT IS THIS"	2,057
	Chapter 12	Sources	"Eventually, Keltham lies down in bed" (stop at first line of tag)	2,714
	Chapter 13	Seven	Keltham wakes up.	2,077
	Chapter 14	Heresy	End of Carissa's morning conversation.	2,467
	Interlude	They Never Listen	End of tag.	117
	Chapter 15	Board of Coordination	"'STOP IGNORING URGENT REPORTS'" +1 tag	2,303
	Chapter 16	Topology	"Oh and also eat breakfast." (and breakfast begins)	3,048
	Chapter 17	Master-Criminal-Detective	"'Cheliax is Asmodeus's and Asmodeus isn't stupid.'" +1 tag	2,577
	Chapter 18	Mobility	"'Sure. […] if there isn't a big round stone tower around.'"	2,686
	Chapter 19	Thinking Quickly	"they all have good poker faces."	2,120
	Chapter 20	Going Meta	"if you go looking for enough tiny signs like that, you will eventually find some"	4,267
Book Three: Orientation				31,826
	Chapter 21	Sense Motive	"'thick erasable pens in multiple colors.'"	4,878
	Chapter 22	One Equals One	"Physics disasters are BAD but math disasters are SO MUCH WORSE."	2,775
	Chapter 23	Faster Than Hell	"'…you're not all 8 years old and that should count for something…'" (+end of tag)	5,688
	Interlude	Syllogism	""\h, ~ (red(h) ^ blue(h)), ~(~red(h))^(~blue(h))?" Patxi ventures?" (before "Carissa is being a bad student")	3,322
	Chapter 24	Divergence	"'go and speak aloud any really bad wrong answers you come up with here.'"	2,737
	Interlude	Building Blocks	"'Second one,' the girl says."	1,649
	Chapter 25	Shadows of Necessary Truths	"at least not more cheaply than he could grab someone from there"	2,188
	Chapter 26	Absolute and Timeless Stuff	"'I expect I will have something to say on Coordination too, at some point or another.'"	4,505
	Chapter 27	Keepers	"Seriously? that one?" Note: IMSIYUDT Week 5 ends on "he needs to not talk about that during lunch"	2,459
Book Four: Curriculum
	Chapter 28	Lunch	"'What does happen in Hell, exactly?'"	2,699
	Chapter 29	Variance	"'I hope you meant me to take that as a challenge.'"	2,052
	Chapter 30	Variants	"She turns and leaves the room again and this time actually tries studying her logic homework."	1,480
	Chapter 31	Dignity, Dignity, and Dignity	"same book, same language, same library, same city, same planet, or same laws of physics"	4,730
	Chapter 32	A Balancing Point of Pressures	"His audience is so captivated and concerned."	6,044
	Chapter 33	Smallness and Irrelevance	"learning things, knowing how one fact connects to so many other facts, seeing how worlds differ across planes."	767
	Chapter 34	Two-Step	"WOULDN'T THE KIDS THEMSELVES SPONTANEOUSLY INVENT BETTER GAMES THAN -"	3,083
	Chapter 35	Games	"They're starting to trust Keltham to know where he's going, though. They listen."	4,411
	Chapter 36	Good Times	"[…] a team of dedicated clerics healing them and keeping them under." +1 line (mid-tag)	3,326
	Chapter 37	Diversity and Optimality	Post beginning "'All right, speaking more seriously now. It's easy to tangle yourself up with paradoxes'"	3,413
	Interlude	–	3 tags	91
	Chapter 38	The Optimal Best Answer	"he's going to try learning wizard spells with the last of his day."	957