Wei_Dai comments on Secrets of the eliminati - Less Wrong

93 Post author: Yvain 20 July 2011 10:15AM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 27 August 2011 03:31:11PM 1 point [-]

I think you're looking at later stages of development than I am.

You're right, and perhaps I should better familiarize myself with earlier intellectual history. Do you have any books you can recommend, on Leibniz for example?

Comment author: Will_Newsome 27 August 2011 04:59:28PM *  1 point [-]

This one perhaps. I haven't read it but feel pretty guilty about that fact. Two FAI-minded people have recommended it to me, though I sort of doubt that they've actually read it either. Ah, the joys and sorrows of hypothetical CliffsNotes.

ETA: I think Vassar is the guy to ask about history of science or really history of anything. It's his fault I'm so interested in history.