As a person who has read less than 10% of the sequences would it be bad of me to want a quick conclusions of each chapter? Would I be losing anything if I didn’t need to be convinced, I just want to know the pointers?
As a person who has read 100% of the Sequences, I would also prefer if there would exist a shorter version. But, as far as I know, it doesn’t exist yet. Someone would have to make it. Someone other than Eliezer, because this is not at the top of his priority list.
Would I be losing anything if I didn’t need to be convinced, I just want to know the pointers?
You would be probably more likely to forget them. In general, longer text requires you to spend more time focusing on the idea. If someone would convert the Sequences into a PowerPoint presentation of 20 pages, a week later you probably wouldn’t remember anything.
I realize how what I wrote here conflicts with my desire to have a shorter version of the Sequences, and… I don’t know. Perhaps the shorter version should use other techniques for easier memorization, e.g. funny pictures.
Rationality is about not simply taking up believes unfiltered but evaluating claims of other people before you believe in them. Not doing that would seem to miss the point on a general level.
Accepting conclusions that have been accepted by a sufficient number of marginally trustworthy people is not necessarily a bad heuristic. He might gain more from dogma if he won’t persevere through the reading, though a list that people are publically being pointed to could lead to people pointing fingers, saying “cult”.
I think the value of the sequences is that they change heuristics of thinking that many people who read them use. I would guess that you don’t get that value by simply reading conclusions.
As a person who has read less than 10% of the sequences would it be bad of me to want a quick conclusions of each chapter? Would I be losing anything if I didn’t need to be convinced, I just want to know the pointers?
As a person who has read 100% of the Sequences, I would also prefer if there would exist a shorter version. But, as far as I know, it doesn’t exist yet. Someone would have to make it. Someone other than Eliezer, because this is not at the top of his priority list.
You would be probably more likely to forget them. In general, longer text requires you to spend more time focusing on the idea. If someone would convert the Sequences into a PowerPoint presentation of 20 pages, a week later you probably wouldn’t remember anything.
I realize how what I wrote here conflicts with my desire to have a shorter version of the Sequences, and… I don’t know. Perhaps the shorter version should use other techniques for easier memorization, e.g. funny pictures.
Rationality is about not simply taking up believes unfiltered but evaluating claims of other people before you believe in them. Not doing that would seem to miss the point on a general level.
Accepting conclusions that have been accepted by a sufficient number of marginally trustworthy people is not necessarily a bad heuristic. He might gain more from dogma if he won’t persevere through the reading, though a list that people are publically being pointed to could lead to people pointing fingers, saying “cult”.
I think the value of the sequences is that they change heuristics of thinking that many people who read them use. I would guess that you don’t get that value by simply reading conclusions.