One of the most common complaints about the old Sequences was that there was no canonical default order, especially for people who didn’t want to read the entire blog archive chronologically.
I was tricked into doing this. Years ago someone posted an ebook claiming to be the Sequences, but was actually just every single Yudkowsky blog post from 2006 to 2010 -_-
It took until noticing that only Yudkowsky’s side of the FOOM debate was in there that I realized what had happened
Just as a little bit of a counterpoint, I loved the 2006-2010 ebook and was never particularly bothered by the length. I read the whole thing at least twice through, I think, and have occasionally used it to look up posts and so on. The format just worked really well for me. This may be because I am an unusually fast reader, or because I was young and had nothing else to do. But it certainly isn’t totally useless :P
I was tricked into doing this. Years ago someone posted an ebook claiming to be the Sequences, but was actually just every single Yudkowsky blog post from 2006 to 2010 -_-
It took until noticing that only Yudkowsky’s side of the FOOM debate was in there that I realized what had happened
It wasn’t meant as a trick! Organising them would have been very hard.
Can confirm!
Just as a little bit of a counterpoint, I loved the 2006-2010 ebook and was never particularly bothered by the length. I read the whole thing at least twice through, I think, and have occasionally used it to look up posts and so on. The format just worked really well for me. This may be because I am an unusually fast reader, or because I was young and had nothing else to do. But it certainly isn’t totally useless :P
Oh, I didn’t mean to imply I didn’t like it! It was a welcome companion for hundreds of long school bus journeys.