I think we see eye-to-eye, we both came here with a large amount of pre-existing knowledge and understanding of rationality...and I think for both of us reading all of the sequences is just not going to be a realistic expectation. But by the same token, I can’t go with you when you say the ideas are basic.
Even if you knew them already, they are still very important and useful ideas that most people don’t seem to know or act upon. I have respect for them and the people that write about them, even if I don’t have time to go through all of them, and the inability to do that forms a significant barrier to my participation in the site.
I think we see eye-to-eye, we both came here with a large amount of pre-existing knowledge and understanding of rationality...and I think for both of us reading all of the sequences is just not going to be a realistic expectation. But by the same token, I can’t go with you when you say the ideas are basic.
Even if you knew them already, they are still very important and useful ideas that most people don’t seem to know or act upon. I have respect for them and the people that write about them, even if I don’t have time to go through all of them, and the inability to do that forms a significant barrier to my participation in the site.