This thread is another experiment roughly in the vein of the Boring Advice Repository and the Solved Problems Repository.
There are some topics I'd like to see more LW posts on, but I feel underqualified to post about them relative to my estimate of the most qualified LWer on the topic. I would guess that I am not the only one. I would further guess that there are some LWers who are really knowledgeable about various topics and might like to write about one of them but are unsure which one to choose.
If my guesses are right, these people should be made aware of each other. In this thread, please comment with a request for a LW post (Discussion or Main) on a particular topic. Please upvote such a comment if you would also like to see such a post, and comment on such a comment if you plan on writing such a post. If you leave a writing-plan comment, please edit it once you actually write the post and link to the post so as to avoid duplication of effort in the future.
Let's see what happens!
Edit: it just occurred to me that it might also be reasonable to comment indicating what topics you'd be interested in writing about and then asking people to tell you which ones they'd like you to write about the most. So try that too!
But shminux didn't say "I want to talk about QM" or anything close to it. He was asking for something much more specific: a short summary of the bits of Eliezer's QM posts that are actually necessary to read the other things he's written that refer back to them.
That video fails to achieve this, on several counts.
It is something like an hour long. Watching it might take longer than reading all Eliezer's QM posts.
The view of QM it puts forward differs somewhat from Eliezer's. This makes it distinctly un-useful as a summary of Eliezer's position to help people understand his other writing.
It picks different topics from the ones Eliezer describes; for a random example, one of the things in Eliezer's QM sequence that he makes use of elsewhere is the idea that the idea of "one particle as distinct from another identical one" badly fails to match up with how the world actually works; the linked video has nothing to say about this because it's focusing on different things.
Its purpose is quite different from, and narrower than, Eliezer's. Eliezer is trying to teach some of the basics of QM to an audience that might not already know it. Garret is trying to tell people who've read a bunch of popular writing on QM that the popular writing gives a misleading picture, and to show a bit of the mathematics required to paint a better picture. (That's also one of Eliezer's purposes. But it's not the only one.)
I should add that I didn't find Garret's explanation particularly clear or insightful; but opinions on that might vary.