An EPub of Eliezer's blog posts

Caveat Lector: This ebook is very long.

Kindles are weird. I just thought "Huh, I've been reading this for a long time now, and I'm only 70% through. I wonder how long it is..." So I ran a word count; One Million words. I did some calculations. At the font size I read at, I get about 115 words per page. So 1,040,000 words covers 9043 pages. A paperback I picked off my shelf fits 386 pages in 2.6cm thickness, making a page 0.00674cm thick. So if this were a physical book it would be 9cm wide, 12cm tall, and 62cm thick.

If you put it down it would stand 2 feet tall. With my 70% bookmark six inches off the ground.

Don't be put off though, this book has easily held my interest so far. It is definitely worth the time to read. But don't expect to knock it out over a weekend.

Update: have now made a MOBI for the Kindle too.

EDIT: fixed - thanks!

For anyone interested, I have used a machine learning algorithm to generate short summaries of all but six of the Yudkowsky posts collected in this ePub.  You can find them at the following link: 

https://github.com/umm-maybe/MostlyWrong/blob/main/lesswrong_summaries.md

Pull requests for corrections where the algorithm wasn't accurate are welcome.

This may be useful for people like me who feel the need to get caught up on LessWrong background, but are short on time.  Others may like to skim the summaries as a way to identify posts on topics that interest them enough to go find the original and read it in full.  I do hope it lowers barriers to participation in the discussion.

I haven't had a chance to test the output much yet, but following the instructions at http://techsupport.foreverwarm.com/how-to-read-epub-books-on-your-kindle and using Calibre seems to have relatively easily produced a Kindle version.

The cover makes me less likely to send the link to a friend not familiar with the content.

I also don't want to have to explain the first thing my students will see if/when I offer the link to my critical thinking class.

Note that there are previous projects for presenting Sequences in self-contained files, including EPub and MOBI versions. See "Alternative Formats" section of Sequences wiki page. (Added this project to the list.)

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Thank you so much. Very useful.

Have edited to add a link to source code for the scraper.

This is great. Thanks a lot!

Thanks ciphergoth. That would have saved me an hour or so when I was collecting all of Eliezer's stuff for bulk conversion to audio!

Reading now, can confirm a) the Calibre conversation is pretty good b) massive gratitude to ciphergoth.

These already exist (I have them on my phone). What's new about your epubs?

Thank you. I find this valuable.

However, I personally find the cover distasteful, even though it is obviously meant to be in jest.

I think it is better to avoid any hint of the trappings of religion or Eliezer as the great prophet.

I have personally encountered people who are sympathetic to Eliezer's ideas but are wary because of the pattern-matching going on that makes them think "potentially dangerous cult leader". The cover doesn't help that problem; in fact, it perpetuates it--whatever the content of the document.

As we know from presidential politics, impressions matter, even or maybe especially when they are superficial.

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