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Comment author: polymathwannabe 10 October 2014 01:05:06PM 0 points [-]

We could also produce some kind of rationality book

EY's Sequences are currently being edited in ebook form.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 10 October 2014 01:33:51PM *  2 points [-]

That is a great thing to have! But still, if someone with good writing skills could make a more accessible version, that would be even better. But that needs a person with a specific talent, and is probably not something we could do as a group. (As a group, we could try to find such talented people who are also rational, given them the Sequences, and later ask if they would be interested in writing something similar.)

Comment author: James_Miller 11 October 2014 01:18:32AM 2 points [-]

I'm currently working with my literary agent to pitch publishers on a LW/rationality book. Our initial attempts didn't work because the publishers didn't know what shelf the book would go on in the book stores. Now we are thinking of doing a rationality book for managers.

Comment author: ChristianKl 21 October 2014 05:04:02PM 0 points [-]

That reminds me of Nassim Taleb who purposefully inserted a fictional chapter in (The Black Swan) to mess with the book stores ideas of how to categories books (chapter 2).

It would be interesting to know how many books got prevented by publishers not wanting to publish books that don't clearly fit.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 10 October 2014 01:57:57PM 3 points [-]

I'm a copyeditor and proofreader. That would be my dream job.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 10 October 2014 02:02:05PM 1 point [-]

Any samples of your work? Cost estimate for the whole Sequences remake? A sample chapter?

Sometimes dreams come true... :)

Comment author: polymathwannabe 10 October 2014 02:54:59PM 2 points [-]

This will blow up my online anonymity, but whatever.

In 2008, when I had no knowledge of Overcoming Bias and its related memespace, I wrote this.

That online newspaper no longer exists, but I'm glad they keep their old archives browseable.