One reason people aren’t so big on linking the sequences is that Eliezer has, for some time now, been writing a book consolidating the sequences into a much more readable text. I think people are waiting until that comes out to bug everyone to read Eliezer’s work.
Update: The books are on hold because we need Eliezer for other projects. If we’re lucky, a professional writer will be able to take Eliezer’s (substantial) work and finish it (with minimal input from Eliezer). We have a retainer with one writer who has written at least one bestseller so far, and will take a crack at Eliezer’s books once he finishes his current project, probably late this fall.
I wish there were some transparency in what he is involved in and to what degree. Not a wholly unreasonable thing to ask from a non-profit. Hopefully major donors have a better visibility into the SI/EY day-to-day operation.
EY should start a webshow called day in the life of EY which is just a webcam attached to his head so we can know more about his personal life than he already shares with us xD
(I am chagrined to admit that when I first heard about that event, it was just described as a “Toronto professor,” and I thought “How unfortunate!” When I later discovered it was Mann I was like “Oh, well, that explains it then.”)
(Yes, which allows Konkvistador to upgrade his confidence significantly beyond ‘guess’ to ‘know with reasonable confidence because it is stated and there isn’t much reason for it to be a lie’.)
We have a retainer with one writer who has written at least one bestseller so far, and will take a crack at Eliezer’s books once he finishes his current project, probably late this fall.
One reason people aren’t so big on linking the sequences is that Eliezer has, for some time now, been writing a book consolidating the sequences into a much more readable text. I think people are waiting until that comes out to bug everyone to read Eliezer’s work.
Update: The books are on hold because we need Eliezer for other projects. If we’re lucky, a professional writer will be able to take Eliezer’s (substantial) work and finish it (with minimal input from Eliezer). We have a retainer with one writer who has written at least one bestseller so far, and will take a crack at Eliezer’s books once he finishes his current project, probably late this fall.
Gah! That is no doubt a good decision all things considered but still frustrating to hear as a prospective reader!
Whatever this project is, it must be something truly exceptional, to preempt a useful project presumably close to publication.
From what I understand (guess) Eliezer is doing a lot of work on the new centre for rationality spin off from SI.
I wish there were some transparency in what he is involved in and to what degree. Not a wholly unreasonable thing to ask from a non-profit. Hopefully major donors have a better visibility into the SI/EY day-to-day operation.
EY should start a webshow called day in the life of EY which is just a webcam attached to his head so we can know more about his personal life than he already shares with us xD
But he ought not go to France if he does.
(I am chagrined to admit that when I first heard about that event, it was just described as a “Toronto professor,” and I thought “How unfortunate!” When I later discovered it was Mann I was like “Oh, well, that explains it then.”)
I have no idea what you are referring to.
Ack! Wrong link!
That’s embarrassing.
Link fixed.
At least, that’s what he tells his HPMoR readers!
Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Better yet,
-Eliezer Yudkowsky
(Yes, which allows Konkvistador to upgrade his confidence significantly beyond ‘guess’ to ‘know with reasonable confidence because it is stated and there isn’t much reason for it to be a lie’.)
Fiction bestseller or non-fiction bestseller?
Non-fiction pop-sci.