I agree with your review, and Eliezer’s afterword, in that this story misses the mark on effectively transmitting Economic knowledge; though I still have to see how the FAQ compares. Overall it makes for a light read and a nice intro to the topics in question to start building intuition and show possible topics to learn more about.
This is the second time I’ve come across Eliezer’s fiction writings thanks to a review on LessWrong (the other being Review: Planecrash), thanks for bringing the story up. I wish there was a more easily/visibly accessible list of his longer-form writing; it hadn’t occurred to me that he had more stuff other than The Sequences, HPMOR and IABIED if it hadn’t been for posts like these.
I agree with your review, and Eliezer’s afterword, in that this story misses the mark on effectively transmitting Economic knowledge; though I still have to see how the FAQ compares. Overall it makes for a light read and a nice intro to the topics in question to start building intuition and show possible topics to learn more about.
This is the second time I’ve come across Eliezer’s fiction writings thanks to a review on LessWrong (the other being Review: Planecrash), thanks for bringing the story up. I wish there was a more easily/visibly accessible list of his longer-form writing; it hadn’t occurred to me that he had more stuff other than The Sequences, HPMOR and IABIED if it hadn’t been for posts like these.
Other Eliezerfics that come to mind are:
The Sword of Good
Three Worlds Collide
A girl corrupted by the Internet is the summoned hero
Some other ones than planecrash here: https://www.glowfic.com/users/366
Of those I would mainly just recommend “aviation is the most dangerous routine activity” and “for no laid course prepare”.