I listened the audiobook and fully endorse this review. It’s much better than what I would have written.
I really love Pinker’s other books so I was looking forward to this but unfortunately I already had all the fun spoiled by reading LW sequences, like literally all. The Sequences are a superset of this book, longer and quirkier, deeper and more insightful. But I agree that Pinker’s book is a good fit for someone who wants a more compact and mainstream-sounding intro to rationality.
And perhaps the biggest advantage of the sequences is that, though they’re long, they’re made of mostly stand-alone essays that can be shared on their own. So if you want to let someone read about a specific topic, an essay from the sequences will probably be a better fit than “Page/Chapter X in this book”.
I listened the audiobook and fully endorse this review. It’s much better than what I would have written.
I really love Pinker’s other books so I was looking forward to this but unfortunately I already had all the fun spoiled by reading LW sequences, like literally all. The Sequences are a superset of this book, longer and quirkier, deeper and more insightful. But I agree that Pinker’s book is a good fit for someone who wants a more compact and mainstream-sounding intro to rationality.
And perhaps the biggest advantage of the sequences is that, though they’re long, they’re made of mostly stand-alone essays that can be shared on their own. So if you want to let someone read about a specific topic, an essay from the sequences will probably be a better fit than “Page/Chapter X in this book”.