Benito comments on Open thread for December 24-31, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Benito 26 December 2013 11:09:34AM *  3 points [-]

Robert Wright's 'The Moral Animal' is a popular introduction to the field of Evolutionary Psychology for a lay audience, and was third on Yudkowsky's bookshelf of 'Books that changed my life' and also third on 'Books of knowledge'.

I'm looking to gauge interest on a post about it - I'm currently working on a summary for my own benefit. Are people more interested in a short review with a couple of key quotes/ideas, or a longer summary which covers the whole book? Contrast Lukeprog's extensive summary of How to Measure Anything with his shorter review of Thinking, Fast and Slow.

Or I could even do a short summary, like this one, briefly mentioning what Wright talks about in the chapters without much detail.

Submitting...

Comment author: pragmatist 26 December 2013 11:28:08AM *  3 points [-]

There is a much nicer way to do a poll in a comment. See here.

Also, if you are going to conduct a poll via upvote, you may want to add a karma dump option as well, where people can downvote to counterbalance their upvotes. Some people might not want to provide upvotes for reasons other than quality control.

Comment author: tut 27 December 2013 12:54:51PM 1 point [-]

Please don't use that in the latest open thread though, since it makes it impossible to subscribe to the RSS feed of the thread.

Comment author: pragmatist 31 December 2013 12:02:57PM 1 point [-]

Ah, I was not aware of this. Thanks for letting me know.

Comment author: Benito 26 December 2013 12:47:57PM 1 point [-]

Oops, you're right, thanks!