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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.

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Volume I -– Mad Investor Chaos and the Woman of Asmodeus

 
permalink Prologue Planecrash End of tag 365

Book 1 -One: Places-People-Go-When-They-Are-Dead

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permalink Chapter 1 Golarion "Keltham…spent some very long minutes contemplating…[how] to have it not happen to him." 1,825
permalink Chapter 2 Equilibrium "…two one-proton atoms and one eight-proton atom" 4,370
permalink Chapter 3 Steel "'Pray'?" 2,178
permalink Chapter 4 Infinite Possibility Space

Keltham repeats six names.

Note: IMSIYUDT Week 1 ends instead on "And she trots off to find the priest." external link.png

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permalink Interlude o Oaths Keltham repeats six names. 480503 permalink Chapter 5 Surface Thoughts He decides to check if he knows the answer. 4,216 permalink Interlude I Environmentalized Intrinsics "People do it live at parties.)" 1,664 permalink Chapter 6 The True Meaning of Chaos "Keltham was somewhat misinformed…" 2,943 external link.png Chapter 7 Squirrel End of conversation before "The priest stands up" 2,078 external link.png Chapter 8 Presumption of Good Intentions "…and they teleport." 1,515

Book 2 -Two: Customs

 33,650 external link.png Chapter 9 Syllables

"Keltham shall now attempt to explore…"

Note: IMSIYUDT Week 2 ends instead on "It has plumbing!" external link.png

3,899 external link.png Chapter 10 Spilled Ink "EMERGENCY […] MEETING RIGHT NOW" 3,318 external link.png Chapter 11 Common Knowledge "WHAT. WHAT IS THIS" 2,057 external link.png Chapter 12 Sources "Eventually, Keltham lies down in bed" (stop at first line of tag) 2,714 external link.png Chapter 13 Seven Keltham wakes up. 2,077 external link.png Chapter 14 Heresy End of Carissa's morning conversation. 2,467 external link.png Interlude || They Never Listen End of tag. 117 external link.png Chapter 15 Board of Coordination "'STOP IGNORING URGENT REPORTS'" +1 tag 2,303 external link.png Chapter 16 Topology "Oh and also eat breakfast." (and breakfast begins) 3,048 external link.png Chapter 17 Master-Criminal-Detective "'Cheliax is Asmodeus's and Asmodeus isn't stupid.'" +1 tag 2,577 external link.png Chapter 18 Mobility "'Sure. […] if there isn't a big round stone tower around.'" 2,686 external link.png Chapter 19 Thinking Quickly "they all have good poker faces." 2,120 external link.png Chapter 20 Going Meta "if you go looking for enough tiny signs like that, you will eventually find some" 4,267

Book Three: Orientation

  external link.png Chapter 21 Sense Motive "'thick erasable pens in multiple colors.'" 4,878 external link.png Chapter 22 One Equals One "Physics disasters are BAD but math disasters are SO MUCH WORSE." 2,775 external link.png Chapter 23 Faster Than Hell "'…you're not all 8 years old and that should count for something…'" (+end of tag) 5,688 external link.png Interlude Syllogism ""\h, ~ (red(h) ^ blue(h)), ~(~red(h))^(~blue(h))?" Patxi ventures?" (before "Carissa is being a bad student") 3,322 external link.png Chapter 24 Divergence "'go and speak aloud any really bad wrong answers you come up with here.'" 2,737 external link.png Interlude Building Blocks "'Second one,' the girl says." 1,649 external link.png Chapter 25 Shadows of Necessary Truths "at least not more cheaply than he could grab someone from there" 2,188 external link.png Chapter 26 Absolute and Timeless Stuff "'I expect I will have something to say on Coordination too, at some point or another.'" 4,505 external link.png Chapter 27 Keepers "he needs to not talk about that during lunch" (+end of tag) 1,625