While this is a good post, I objected to curating it as the later “Highlights from the Comments on Cultural Evolution” had lots of comments suggesting that various quoted excerpts were either misleading or false. This made me pretty skeptical about all of the book’s other claims too.
Curating this review feels to me at odds with the stated goal of maintaining a repository of the highlights of ongoing conversations, since we have a later post which to me basically said that the book is unreliable enough to not be worth reading.
Hmm, this does seem fair. I think I’d also have thought it valuable to curate Highlights from the Comments on Cultural Evolution except that it wasn’t crossposted to LW.
While this is a good post, I objected to curating it as the later “Highlights from the Comments on Cultural Evolution” had lots of comments suggesting that various quoted excerpts were either misleading or false. This made me pretty skeptical about all of the book’s other claims too.
Curating this review feels to me at odds with the stated goal of maintaining a repository of the highlights of ongoing conversations, since we have a later post which to me basically said that the book is unreliable enough to not be worth reading.
Hmm, this does seem fair. I think I’d also have thought it valuable to curate Highlights from the Comments on Cultural Evolution except that it wasn’t crossposted to LW.