David_Gerard comments on London Meetup on 2011/1/2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 03 January 2011 03:57:54PM *  1 point [-]

Undoubtedly.

  • Alternate Pratchetts and sequences.

(I've been rereading the entire Discworld series in order. I am shocked to realise what a startlingly intelligent and clueful man Terry Pratchett is, and his rationalist heroes are pretty amazing too: yer Granny Weatherwax and Havelock Vetinari. Even Vimes, as he slowly, painfully learns to think. Pratchett doesn't give much of how they do what they do to make them required reading, but noting that they are in fact rationalist heroes is IMO useful.)