gwern comments on November 2013 Media Thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 01 November 2013 08:32:52PM 0 points [-]

Nonfiction Books Thread

Comment author: gwern 02 November 2013 12:59:15AM 3 points [-]
  • Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine (review)
  • Kanigel's The Man Who Knew Infinity (review)
  • Gsponer & Hurni's Fourth generation nuclear weapons
  • Pape's It's Behind You: the making of a computer game (review)
  • The Man Who Would Be Queen
Comment author: Vaniver 02 November 2013 01:19:21AM 0 points [-]

What was your opinion of The Man Who Would Be Queen?

Comment author: gwern 02 November 2013 01:27:21AM *  3 points [-]

I found some of the claims interesting, and after reading the like 100-page-long compilation of papers on the controversy I was deeply appalled by McCloskey and her allies' clear dishonesty & bad behavior (which is something I shall certainly be taking into consideration if I read anything by McCloskey in the future), but I feel too ignorant of the topic to venture any opinion at all on the book or its claims (and the fact that it was 'pop' science didn't help me).

EDIT: actually I guess I'll just post that as my review. Better than leaving no review at all.