Why isn’t If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies available for free online? Like as a webpage?
I read it, and I take it very seriously, and I’m actively putting in work to understand it better because of how seriously I take it, but it sticks out as odd to me that we’d paywall and paper-wall such an important message.
Maybe it’s because of that thing Eliezer once wrote where he said people might be more interested in science if it was all paywalled and other-stuff-walled and shrouded in cloaks and mystery instead of freely available in cheap textbooks and free blog posts?
I’m guessing that the publisher doesn’t want it freely available, and the authors expect the prestige from a conventional publisher to bring in more readers (or more high-status readers) overall.
Smart, I hadn’t thought of that. A quick Google search says maybe publishers let you publish online after the print copy is out, but not before? Could there be an online copy of IABIED in the future? (Or maybe I’m wrong, I know so little about publishing that I can’t even sanity-check what I think Google is telling me.)
Why isn’t If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies available for free online? Like as a webpage?
I read it, and I take it very seriously, and I’m actively putting in work to understand it better because of how seriously I take it, but it sticks out as odd to me that we’d paywall and paper-wall such an important message.
Maybe it’s because of that thing Eliezer once wrote where he said people might be more interested in science if it was all paywalled and other-stuff-walled and shrouded in cloaks and mystery instead of freely available in cheap textbooks and free blog posts?
I’m guessing that the publisher doesn’t want it freely available, and the authors expect the prestige from a conventional publisher to bring in more readers (or more high-status readers) overall.
Smart, I hadn’t thought of that. A quick Google search says maybe publishers let you publish online after the print copy is out, but not before? Could there be an online copy of IABIED in the future? (Or maybe I’m wrong, I know so little about publishing that I can’t even sanity-check what I think Google is telling me.)