Are there any plans to launch a paperback version of "Rationality: From AI to Zombies"?

post by m_arj · 2024-07-05T11:14:13.026Z · LW · GW · 1 comment

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Books one and two are already available in paperback. However, books three, four, five, and six are still missing. Nevertheless, I wonder if you could release a complete version.

I believe many of us are eagerly waiting for it.

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comment by Viliam · 2024-07-14T19:50:41.442Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Just an uninformed guess: no. (Unless a new person volunteers for the job.)

The reasoning is basically that because it wasn't done for such long time, the people who did the first two books probably feel they have more important things to do. As the LLMs evolve, this feeling will only get stronger.

Also, I think the paperback versions were not just "the original version but printed on paper", but there were also significant edits. If that is true, then printing the remaining books would require similar edits, which is a task that requires certain skills, which dramatically reduces the pool of possible volunteers.

(Then again, if we wait long enough, we could simply throw all the existing material at a LLM and ask it to do the same edits in the remaining books.)