iarwain1 comments on Request: Sequences book reading group - Less Wrong

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Comment author: iarwain1 23 February 2015 05:41:47PM *  4 points [-]

26 sequences one every other week is precisely 52 weeks = the number of weeks in a year. Not bad.

Assuming there are about 300 articles total, that comes out to about 11 or 12 articles per sequence on average, which at one every other week is a little less than once per day.

I think I'd still prefer an article per day (or every other day, as per earlier poll), but I'll let others weigh in on this. Should I do yet another poll?

Comment author: ciphergoth 24 February 2015 12:22:19PM 2 points [-]

I'd sooner go for one a week; I think that's closer to the likely reading pace and it means we quickly find out whether it works. We could easily follow it with an article-a-day presentation if that's what we think is best after learning from the sequence-a-week presentation.

Comment author: TsviBT 25 February 2015 01:16:36AM 1 point [-]

FYI, each sequence is (very roughly) 20,000 words.

Comment author: ciphergoth 25 February 2015 08:49:58AM 1 point [-]

Assuming it is slower to read than the standard 200 wpm, that's still only a couple of hours each; seems doable!

Comment author: iarwain1 01 March 2015 05:01:09PM *  0 points [-]

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