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Vaniver comments on Causality: a chapter by chapter review - Less Wrong
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Thanks for the post! Do you (or does anybody else) know how different the second edition is from the first edition? Is there a significant amount of important new material? I've been intending to read the book (and your review has strengthened the intention) but my library only has the first edition. Should I hold out for the newer edition or will it not make much of a difference?
In general, imperfect action is better than inaction. From a brief glance at the table of contents in the first edition, it looks like they're fairly similar- the second edition has an extra chapter (of which a few sections are great and several are skippable). Many of the sections have extensions from work done after 2000, but the basic concepts underwent little change. I would imagine that the second edition has fewer errors, but without a detailed reading I can't tell how significant that is.
The main trouble you could get into with reading just the first edition that I can think of is a few of the definitions which underwent significant revision to exclude some corner cases where they misbehaved.
I think I would ask the library if they can order the second edition while starting to read the first edition.