Robert Wright’s ‘The Moral Animal’ is a popular introduction to the field of Evolutionary Psychology for a lay audience, and was third on Yudkowsky’s bookshelf of ‘Books that changed my life’ and also third on ‘Books of knowledge’.
I’m looking to gauge interest on a post about it—I’m currently working on a summary for my own benefit. Are people more interested in a short review with a couple of key quotes/ideas, or a longer summary which covers the whole book? Contrast Lukeprog’s extensive summary of How to Measure Anything with his shorter review of Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Or I could even do a short summary, like this one, briefly mentioning what Wright talks about in the chapters without much detail.
There is a much nicer way to do a poll in a comment. See here.
Also, if you are going to conduct a poll via upvote, you may want to add a karma dump option as well, where people can downvote to counterbalance their upvotes. Some people might not want to provide upvotes for reasons other than quality control.
Robert Wright’s ‘The Moral Animal’ is a popular introduction to the field of Evolutionary Psychology for a lay audience, and was third on Yudkowsky’s bookshelf of ‘Books that changed my life’ and also third on ‘Books of knowledge’.
I’m looking to gauge interest on a post about it—I’m currently working on a summary for my own benefit. Are people more interested in a short review with a couple of key quotes/ideas, or a longer summary which covers the whole book? Contrast Lukeprog’s extensive summary of How to Measure Anything with his shorter review of Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Or I could even do a short summary, like this one, briefly mentioning what Wright talks about in the chapters without much detail.
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There is a much nicer way to do a poll in a comment. See here.
Also, if you are going to conduct a poll via upvote, you may want to add a karma dump option as well, where people can downvote to counterbalance their upvotes. Some people might not want to provide upvotes for reasons other than quality control.
Please don’t use that in the latest open thread though, since it makes it impossible to subscribe to the RSS feed of the thread.
Ah, I was not aware of this. Thanks for letting me know.
Oops, you’re right, thanks!
Up vote this comment for an extensive summary.
Up vote this comment for a simple review.
Up vote this comment for a briefer summary.