Just a sanity check, are there other people here who feel like the sequences, while being fairly good pop science write-ups, are also massively overrated and full of flaws? Especially when it comes to scientific fields, for example it feels like the caricature of scientists in defy the data was written without once talking to one.
Just a sanity check, are there other people here who feel like the sequences, while being fairly good pop science write-ups, are also massively overrated and full of flaws? Especially when it comes to scientific fields, for example it feels like the caricature of scientists in defy the data was written without once talking to one.
Full of flaws? Yes. Cringe? Yes. 2-3 times longer than it should be? Yes.
Overrated? Only slightly. There’s some great dramatisations of dry academic ideas (similar to Taleb), and the philosophy is plausibly life changing.