I have a very low bar for ‘interesting discussion’, since the alternative for what to do with my spare time when there’s nothing going on IRL is playing video games that I don’t particularly like. But it’s been months since I’ve seen anything that meets it.
It seems like internet people think insight demands originality. This isn’t true. If you look at popular long-form ‘insight’ writers, even Yudkowsky (especially Yudkowsky), most of what they do is find earlier books and file the serial numbers off. It could be a lot easier for us to generate interesting discussion if we read more books and wrote about them, like this.
I have a very low bar for ‘interesting discussion’, since the alternative for what to do with my spare time when there’s nothing going on IRL is playing video games that I don’t particularly like. But it’s been months since I’ve seen anything that meets it.
It seems like internet people think insight demands originality. This isn’t true. If you look at popular long-form ‘insight’ writers, even Yudkowsky (especially Yudkowsky), most of what they do is find earlier books and file the serial numbers off. It could be a lot easier for us to generate interesting discussion if we read more books and wrote about them, like this.