I saw someone (cannot find source) say that “Eliezer wrote 300% of the book, and then Nate wrote −200%”. I’ve not read much of Nate’s writing other than on LessWrong, so I don’t know if he’s solely responsible for the change in tone, or if Eliezer was writing more normie-ish to begin with, or what.
it’s fair to say that I wrote 300% of this book! Nate then wrote the other 150%! The combined material was ruthlessly cut down, by Nate, and either rewritten or replaced by Nate. I couldn’t possibly write anything this short, and I don’t expect it to read like standard eliezerfare. (Except maybe in the parables that open most chapters.)
(So it sounds like they both wrote new text, then Nate cut it down)
I saw someone (cannot find source) say that “Eliezer wrote 300% of the book, and then Nate wrote −200%”. I’ve not read much of Nate’s writing other than on LessWrong, so I don’t know if he’s solely responsible for the change in tone, or if Eliezer was writing more normie-ish to begin with, or what.
Eliezer said that! https://x.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1922710975804998110 (with Nate’s percentage as −150%)
It’s actually 150% :
(So it sounds like they both wrote new text, then Nate cut it down)