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If someone compressed the salient points into something that is 10% or less in size, this would even be plausible.
The sequences are already a summary. Summarizing too much more risks committing the usual sins of science journalism.
I find it difficult to believe that the average commenting LWer couldn't spare the time to read the major sequences. That may be the issue for some, sure; but is it the dominant factor?
I'm probably having typical mind fallacy here, and possibly also privilege of having spare time. When I found LW, I devoured the sequences over a few days — then re-read them slower, fascinated. But I'm a pretty avid reader both of books and blogs, so substituting sequences in place of other things I would have read was neither very much opportunity cost nor a disruption to my personal habits. If I were substituting reading the sequences for some other activity it might have been more of both.
And this was before I'd encountered the "you should read the sequences" meme, so there wasn't any interference from the "assigned reading" complex.
But still — I wonder if instead of pushing "you should read the sequences" we should push "the sequences are pretty damn awesome".
I think you mean Typical Mind Fallacy, expecting too much that people are like you. Mind Projection Fallacy is projecting features of maps, like uncertainty, onto the territory.
You're right. Fixed.
Are you serious? A summary that is as long as a multi-volume novel (apparently 4000 printed pages or so)? Feel free to look up the definition of the word summary.
The published literature on heuristics and biases alone is rather larger than that.