I always have mixed feelings when I read book reviews that largely are quotes from the book.
I think that’s a useful service when the book is long (especially if it’s overly long) and there is some actual intellectual labor in figuring out how to abridge it down to the essentials.
In this case I think the original chapter was pretty close to maximally compact, and if I were to have done lots of quotes it’d have essentially just been a link-post, and I’d feel uncomfortable copying the chapter whole cloth.
I do encourage people who were interested in this post to read the whole thing if they’re interested in more details.
(Legal Systems as a whole is quite long and I think individual posts that highlight particular chapters are quite valuable. My reading of the book was directly downstream of this previous, recent LessWrong post about legal systems created by prison inmates, was another chapter that illuminated key group rationality concepts for me)
I always have mixed feelings when I read book reviews that largely are quotes from the book.
I think that’s a useful service when the book is long (especially if it’s overly long) and there is some actual intellectual labor in figuring out how to abridge it down to the essentials.
In this case I think the original chapter was pretty close to maximally compact, and if I were to have done lots of quotes it’d have essentially just been a link-post, and I’d feel uncomfortable copying the chapter whole cloth.
I do encourage people who were interested in this post to read the whole thing if they’re interested in more details.
(Legal Systems as a whole is quite long and I think individual posts that highlight particular chapters are quite valuable. My reading of the book was directly downstream of this previous, recent LessWrong post about legal systems created by prison inmates, was another chapter that illuminated key group rationality concepts for me)