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Comment author: MichaelHoward 22 December 2010 03:31:28AM 6 points [-]

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! :)

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 ...