Thirded, it is definitely “LessWrong, the Book”, although it doesn’t do a lot of Bayes, or any QM, FAI, reductionism, or meanings of words. Actually, I guess that makes it more like “Overcoming Bias, The Book”, except without all the status and signaling, and omitting the near/far inflence on behavior, except as mediated by thinking.
(Holy crap, how big would LW/OB the book be if you included all that stuff? Thinking Fast and Slow is huge, physically speaking.)
I’m reading ciphergoth’s LW ebook on my phone. It gets a bit dull around page 12,000 (of ~20,000 * ) where it’s only one side of EY’s debates on AI with Robin Hanson. But certainly good up to there.
** Mobipocket Reader for BlackBerry calls a two-paragraph screen a “page”, so a 300-page paperback turns into ~2000 screens. The Sequences remain very* long.
I am currently reading this book and would like to second the recommendation.
Thirded, it is definitely “LessWrong, the Book”, although it doesn’t do a lot of Bayes, or any QM, FAI, reductionism, or meanings of words. Actually, I guess that makes it more like “Overcoming Bias, The Book”, except without all the status and signaling, and omitting the near/far inflence on behavior, except as mediated by thinking.
(Holy crap, how big would LW/OB the book be if you included all that stuff? Thinking Fast and Slow is huge, physically speaking.)
Clearly it needs to be sold in a combo with Gary Drescher’s Good and Real.
I’m reading ciphergoth’s LW ebook on my phone. It gets a bit dull around page 12,000 (of ~20,000 * ) where it’s only one side of EY’s debates on AI with Robin Hanson. But certainly good up to there.
** Mobipocket Reader for BlackBerry calls a two-paragraph screen a “page”, so a 300-page paperback turns into ~2000 screens. The Sequences remain very* long.