What are your hopes for this book? Pretty much everyone involved with SIAI already knows about your Overcoming Bias posts. It seems like the primary purchasing demographic for your book will be 1), people who already read your OB posts, 2), people who know about OB but don’t take the time to understand it, and 3), people who aren’t that intelligent or interested in transhumanism (by sheer force of numbers). The first group, of course, will already have heard about most of your ideas. The second group isn’t likely to understand any more than they did the first time (it’s easier to read 200 three-page blog posts than one 600-page book). People in the third group, although they may improve their conception of rationality, aren’t likely to help save the world. What are your thoughts?
What are your hopes for this book? Pretty much everyone involved with SIAI already knows about your Overcoming Bias posts. It seems like the primary purchasing demographic for your book will be 1), people who already read your OB posts, 2), people who know about OB but don’t take the time to understand it, and 3), people who aren’t that intelligent or interested in transhumanism (by sheer force of numbers). The first group, of course, will already have heard about most of your ideas. The second group isn’t likely to understand any more than they did the first time (it’s easier to read 200 three-page blog posts than one 600-page book). People in the third group, although they may improve their conception of rationality, aren’t likely to help save the world. What are your thoughts?