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By the way, what's so special about it? I got it off Amazon a while ago and read it up to around page 100, but none of the content up to that seemed too special. This might be because I'd already internalized many of those points off OB/LW, of course, but still.
Large chunks of the remaining book seem to mostly be about physics and ethics. I'm hesitant to spend time reading any popular physics, as I don't know the actual math behind it and am likely to just get a distorted image. Formal ethical systems are mainly just rationalizations for existing intuitions, so that doesn't seem too interesting, either. Where are the good bits?
The book is similar to Eliezer's posts in content, but with different examples and a focus more towards refuting non-materialism. If there's something you don't understand from reading LW, it's probably explained differently in Good and Real. The different arguments and examples may or may not be more enlightening.
You should probably buy Good and Real if any of the following are true:
You dislike Eliezer's attitude or writing style.
You are often distracted by other things while reading on your computer.
You prefer the structured organization of a book to the Wiki-link effect of blog posts.
You like to show how smart you are by having shelves of books with important-sounding titles.
OK, that last one might have been a joke.