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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: ata 22 December 2010 07:14:40PM 3 points [-]

What are sub-books?

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.)