What I wanted to ask you, since you are well-read. Can you pinpoint what is novel about LW, what makes it special, when compared to books like Stuart Sutherland’s Irrationality and Gary L. Drescher's Good and Real? If someone was going to read Good and Real, Sutherland’s Irrationality and a third book of your choice, what would that person be able to learn from reading the Sequences afterwards?
Oh, lots.
Drescher's Good and Real presupposes most of what the Sequences explain, and applies Less Wrongian thinking to specific problems in physics and philosophy. The most overlap is probably between Drescher's and Eliezer's discussions of QM.
Sutherland's Irrationality is a pretty good survey of heuristics and biases, but that's only one of the main topics at LW.
I don't know what a third book of my choice would be, since I don't know what the criteria are, but I don't know of any book that covers the material in the Sequences that isn't covered by Good and Real and Irrationality.
Luke Muehlhauser posted a selection of the “morals” from Stuart Sutherland’s Irrationality.
Link: commonsenseatheism.com/?p=13556
I was wondering if the same could be done for the Sequences and if it would be a good idea or rather hold people off from reading them at full length.
Is it even possible to summarize each post in one sentence? An example would be Belief in the Implied Invisible which could be summarized by a quote from the post Decoherence is Falsifiable and Testable:
One could then compile a quote paper and cite the accompanying posts. As Luke wrote, "If you want to know his reasons for giving all this advice, read the book."