Recently attempted to read Julian Barbour’s The End of Time, primarily on Eliezer’s recommendation and found myself stalling out because it wasn’t presenting any information which felt new to me. I am currently weighing whether it is worth pushing onward in the hopes of finding meatier material later.
Has anyone else read it after having read the Quantum Physics sequence, and what were their thoughts?
Almost every page of Anathem bears some imprint from [Julian Barbour’]s more recent The End of Time
So that I had read and taken in his ideas (at that deep level mainly reserved for well-written Conjunction Fallacies), and read the Quantum Physics sequence, probably explains why I found nothing new in the book itself.
Recently attempted to read Julian Barbour’s The End of Time, primarily on Eliezer’s recommendation and found myself stalling out because it wasn’t presenting any information which felt new to me. I am currently weighing whether it is worth pushing onward in the hopes of finding meatier material later.
Has anyone else read it after having read the Quantum Physics sequence, and what were their thoughts?
I recently reread Anathem, and while searching for our world’s equivalent of Diax’s Rake, found in the online acknowledgements that
So that I had read and taken in his ideas (at that deep level mainly reserved for well-written Conjunction Fallacies), and read the Quantum Physics sequence, probably explains why I found nothing new in the book itself.