Totally agree—helps if you can convince them to read Fire Upon the Deep, too. I’m not being facetious; the explicit and implicit background vocabulary (seems to) make it easier to understand the essays.
(EDIT: to clarify, it is not that I think Fire in particular must be elevated as a classic of rationality, but that it’s part of a smart sci/fi tradition that helps lay the ground for learning important things. There’s an Eliezer webpage about this somewhere.)
Totally agree—helps if you can convince them to read Fire Upon the Deep, too. I’m not being facetious; the explicit and implicit background vocabulary (seems to) make it easier to understand the essays.
(EDIT: to clarify, it is not that I think Fire in particular must be elevated as a classic of rationality, but that it’s part of a smart sci/fi tradition that helps lay the ground for learning important things. There’s an Eliezer webpage about this somewhere.)