David_Gerard comments on Book Recommendations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 22 December 2010 05:32:26AM 1 point [-]

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.

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.'

packed with hundreds of pages of novel content.

over 500 pages)

Hrm. I would have expected the sequences to have made a good 300 or 400 pages after editing and polishing...

two sub-books

What are sub-books?

Comment author: David_Gerard 22 December 2010 04:13:26PM *  0 points [-]

two sub-books

What are sub-books?

I suspect the word SIAI were after was "volume" :-)

Comment author: wedrifid 22 December 2010 05:45:15PM 1 point [-]

What are sub-books?

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?

Comment author: David_Gerard 22 December 2010 05:47:46PM 1 point [-]

Now that would be a tour de force to bring attention to EY's works ...