This post just confirms that you should take your blooking efforts and turn them into money AND reach a much wider and more lasting audience by writing a book. I think you could do a book like GEB … a long, quirky, multidisciplinary intro to cognitive biases, Bayes’ theorem, Physics, the Singularity, and whatever else you might like, and people will buy it if you write like this.
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Eliezer --
I’m loving this latest series of posts. I’m in the midst of exams right now, so I’ve only been able to skim them, but I will definitely go over them later. Keep up this important work!
anonymous o.b. reader
Tom McCabe:
Even if the book was just a re-hash of the blog posts that are readily available, I’d buy it anyway, because
a) I’d prefer to read and re-read a book then to look at old blog posts on my monitor
and
b) I could loan it to many friends of mind who would enjoy the book but would never bother to look at links to blog posts that I might send them.
Yes!! That is hilarious …. you should use that as the real cover
This is a good story about a guy who went on a pilgrimage to see Gygax last year
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200609/?read=article_lafarge
I felt this way when Heath Ledger died.
Bring on the scorn if you want to, but first go and watch Brokeback Mountain again.
By the way, I played second edition for years, and Gygax’s death doesn’t sadden me.
What’s the name of Bostrom’s book, by the way?
Also, can you really say that many worlds is “quite definitely” true? Or is that just a personal opinion of yours? I don’t know of any convincing experimental data to back it up.
Maybe I’ve misunderstood what you meant when you referred to different versions of ourselves getting different results when measuring some variable in a quantum system.
The best textbooks ever are “The Feynman Lectures On Physics”
“Authors, on the other hand, are trained not to give themselves the benefit of the doubt.”
Trained by whom?
Eliezer,
Great post, as always. I think you’re a great writer.
Nice post. Very interesting. Apparently Lavoisier was the man. I didn’t know much about his work until just now.
For the record, Martin Gardner believes in God (he calls himself a “fideist”)