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This has actually gone public, without any request not to say anything, so I trust it's OK to mention it to anyone who finds themselves here and doesn't know yet. I know I'd want to know! :-)
Eliezer has completed the first draft of his rationality book based on his two-year sequence of blog posting on Less Wrong, packed with hundreds of pages of novel content.
The manuscript is over 280,000 words long (over 500 pages) and has been split into two sub-books. The next steps are thoroughly editing the text and moving towards publication.
Yay! :)
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This is poorly worded enough that I'm not actually sure what you're saying. I have a tentative prediction that you were trying to say something like 'Eliezer has said to some acquaintances and public that the first draft etc.; as he did not request them to maintain the privacy of his statements, I am making it further public since I know many people are interested in the progress of his book.'
Hrm. I would have expected the sequences to have made a good 300 or 400 pages after editing and polishing...
What are sub-books?
The sequences add up to somewhere over a million words (I haven't counted precisely, this is a rough guess). For comparison, Lord Of The Rings is 450,000 words. So cutting it to a mere 280,000 in two volumes is quite good going.
I make it 1056054 words, but that will be over because "wc" will be counting HTML markup as words.
A number!
What do you get if you run it through lynx --dump or similar first?
Well, what I meant was that I couldn't see how one could add hundreds of pages of new content to the lengthy sequences and still wind up with something in the 500-600 page range. 2 volumes at 500 or 600 pages each is more plausible, although if the sequences really are >1 million words, I'm not sure about that either.
I suspect the word SIAI were after was "volume" :-)
\subbook{} sounds suspiciously like a new LaTeX command. Perhaps Eliezer took some time off from writing his treatise in order to work on his typographical system?
Now that would be a tour de force to bring attention to EY's works ...
I think it just means "two books". (A previous round of HPMOR Author's Notes referred to "my nonfiction rationality book which seems to have turned into two books actually", and refers to "the books" for the rest of the paragraph.)
I wasn't trying to be specific with details, but sorry if I communicated badly. It was announced on the Singularity Institute Newsletter.
The 2nd & 3rd paragraphs are direct quotes, I know no more than that.