Absolutely no mention of anything such as The Less Wrong Sequences, 2006-2009. This belongs in a blurb or in an introduction to the book.
Agree. Would like to emphasize even more. Taking in that title with fresh eyes, it sounds perhaps like part N of a multi-volume autobiographical series written by a musician trying to make less shitty music.
I’m not kidding.
If I imagine that I haven’t spent almost a year on this website, and maybe I’ve even been told about it or saw the front page but didn’t really dive into the community, and saw that book on a library shelf somewhere. What would happen? Or if someone told me it was a great book that I should read, but only told me the title?
Obviously, I’d think it’s about something obscure, a book only for “insiders” who already know what the book is talking about. Would I want to pick it up? Not really.
Please, focus on the contents and the message, rather than the history behind the book. No one cares about the history behind a book before they’ve at least read it, unless it’s Gandhi’s secret unrevealed memoirs or something.
Agree. Would like to emphasize even more. Taking in that title with fresh eyes, it sounds perhaps like part N of a multi-volume autobiographical series written by a musician trying to make less shitty music.
I’m not kidding.
If I imagine that I haven’t spent almost a year on this website, and maybe I’ve even been told about it or saw the front page but didn’t really dive into the community, and saw that book on a library shelf somewhere. What would happen? Or if someone told me it was a great book that I should read, but only told me the title?
Obviously, I’d think it’s about something obscure, a book only for “insiders” who already know what the book is talking about. Would I want to pick it up? Not really.
Please, focus on the contents and the message, rather than the history behind the book. No one cares about the history behind a book before they’ve at least read it, unless it’s Gandhi’s secret unrevealed memoirs or something.