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Of possible interest: Eliezer Yudkowsky did a bloggingheads.tv diavlog with Robert Greene, co-author of The 48 Laws of Power. The diavlog was mostly about Greene's sequel, The 50th Law, co-authored with rapper 50 Cent.
(They must say what happened to the 49th law, but I don't remember it.)
Ah, thanks, great to see, how could I have missed that? Entertaining to see how Eliezer somehow gets Greene to elaborate on really how much work it took to find a fitting anecdote after he'd stated some 'law'.
Has anyone read that book? I must say I haven't been inspired to myself. Purely because of a prejudicial indifference to what rappers have to say.
Unless you are interested in 50-Cent, the book does not add much to the 48 Laws. Robert Greene is a master at finding anecdotes to -cough- proof his 'laws', and 50-Cent's life seems to be a good source for those.
More cynically, the book seems a bit like a marketing ploy to reach a different demographic for his books - I can almost imagine kids running around with "48" tattooed in big Fraktur letters on their upper arms..