thomblake comments on Should I believe what the SIAI claims? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 12 August 2010 02:46:20PM 3 points [-]

This was a very good job of taking a number of your comments and turning them into a coherent post. It raised my estimation that Eliezer will be able to do something similar with turning his blog posts into a book.

Comment author: EStokes 12 August 2010 11:11:06PM 3 points [-]

It didn't feel very clear/coherant, but I'm tired so meh. I think it could've done with more lists, or something like that. Something like an outline or clear summation of his points.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 12 August 2010 11:05:44PM 3 points [-]

This was a very good job of taking a number of your comments and turning them into a coherent post. It raised my estimation that Eliezer will be able to do something similar with turning his blog posts into a book.

The connection to Eliezer's ability to write a book is bizarre (to say so politely).

Comment author: Alicorn 12 August 2010 11:11:23PM *  7 points [-]

I think the idea is that if one was originally skeptical about the general feasibility of stitching together separate posts into a single book, this post offers an example of it being done on a smaller scale and ups the estimate of that feasibility.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 12 August 2010 11:14:18PM 0 points [-]

It's not in the nature of ideas to be blog posts. One generally can present ideas in a book form, depending on one's writing skills.

Comment author: thomblake 13 August 2010 02:30:56PM -1 points [-]

Right, exactly.