DanArmak comments on Prediction market sequence requested - Less Wrong
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How about a sequence on math? In fact there's room for lots of math sequences: we don't even have a proper sequence on the math of probability going beyond Bayes' theorem, not to mention statistics, logic, set theory, number theory, information theory, computer science, and programming... All of those and many other subjects are at least as related to rationality as a non-mathematical presentation of quantum mechanics.
If there's interest (e.g., this comment is upvoted), I'll follow up with a poll asking what other sequences people might want. Please suggest other subjects in comment replies, including non-math ones, and I'll include them in the poll.
Eliezer certainly could have written such sequences. Possible reasons he didn't:
Erratum:
(writing normal or poor introductory mathematics is only mildly strenuous; tons of writers do it regularly)
It's also not necessarily a good idea. There are tons of introductory materials like the OLI Statistics course I just finished. Why succumb to NIH?
In the open thread comment I'm preparing, I wrote this:
Many subjects already have excellent material elsewhere on the Web, though, so posts would need to take advantage of LW common knowledge or special interests to add new value.
This wasn't upvoted much at first, so I concluded there wasn't much interest. But now I've come back and there are more upvotes, though not enough to conclude there's significant interest. So I'll put a poll on the open thread, as I promised.