namespace comments on “If You’re Not a Holy Madman, You’re Not Trying”

namespace 1 Mar 2021 13:48 UTC
6 points

I’ve been reading the hardcover SSC collection in the mornings, as a way of avoiding getting caught up in internet distractions first thing when I get up. I’d read many of Scott Alexander’s posts before, but nowhere near everything posted; and I hadn’t before made any attempt to dive the archives to “catch up” to the seeming majority of rationalists who have read everything Scott Alexander has ever written.

Just a note that these are based on the SlateStarCodexAbridged edition of SSC:

https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/
- Yoav Ravid 1 Mar 2021 14:25 UTC
  8 points
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  And just to clarify what that means, from their website:
  (The “abridged” in this site’s title doesn’t, by the way, mean that any of the posts have been shortened—only that the collection as a whole is a selected subset of Scott Alexander’s writing. Each individual post comes to you in its full and glorious length; not a word has been omitted from any of these essays.)