I was under the impression that the HPMoR story was to entice people to become “more rational”, that is, get them to read more of the “day-job” stuff. There was also supposed to be an actual book on rationality, but it looks like that’s been put on hold as well. Which to me seemed like a wise decision, since more people were being led to simply read the sequences via HPMoR already, so why bother with a book?
Which to me seemed like a wise decision, since more people were being led to simply read the sequences via HPMoR already, so why bother with a book?
What evidence do you have for this? I recall some stats from the last census which indicated that LWers referred here by HPMoR were less likely to have read the sequences and be active participants than the general population.
This is actual day-job stuff.
I was under the impression that the HPMoR story was to entice people to become “more rational”, that is, get them to read more of the “day-job” stuff. There was also supposed to be an actual book on rationality, but it looks like that’s been put on hold as well. Which to me seemed like a wise decision, since more people were being led to simply read the sequences via HPMoR already, so why bother with a book?
What evidence do you have for this? I recall some stats from the last census which indicated that LWers referred here by HPMoR were less likely to have read the sequences and be active participants than the general population.