Any suggestions on what would be most useful and practical to summarize? Peter’s list was geared toward marketing, outreach, persuasion, and activism. I think that’s a good idea. I’ve started working on a marketing textbook called Principles of Marketing but I can tell that it’s going to take me a very long time to do well and I might give up on it after the first chapter.
Personally, I’m currently interested in marketing moreso than those other three.
I’d also be interested in startups, business development, consulting, politics, the history of academic movements, biographies and anything on Nick Beckstead’s reading list! And that’s just the general topics.
Most of all, I’d be interested in summaries of books about technological change, futurism, risk forecasting and attempts at political intervention in risky technologies.
Personally, I’d pay like 10c to consume particular summaries. Altruistically, I’d want Eliezer’s writing summarised, and would pay a few of orders of magnitude more for a summary of a sequence, depending significantly on the summarising author.
Here’s my summary of Chapter 1 of Principles of Marketing. It took me 4 hours of work. Here is a link to the book.
Anybody reading this can feel free to edit my writing or work on upcoming chapters. If everybody works on it a little at a time, it could get done several times faster than if I summarize the 600 page book on my own. Summarizing books seems perfectly suited for crowdsourcing.
I think it’s a good idea to summarize books like this, and I found it well-executed.
Any suggestions on what would be most useful and practical to summarize? Peter’s list was geared toward marketing, outreach, persuasion, and activism. I think that’s a good idea. I’ve started working on a marketing textbook called Principles of Marketing but I can tell that it’s going to take me a very long time to do well and I might give up on it after the first chapter.
Why marketing, outreach, persuasion and activism?
Personally, I’m currently interested in marketing moreso than those other three.
I’d also be interested in startups, business development, consulting, politics, the history of academic movements, biographies and anything on Nick Beckstead’s reading list! And that’s just the general topics.
Most of all, I’d be interested in summaries of books about technological change, futurism, risk forecasting and attempts at political intervention in risky technologies.
Hypothetically, how much money, if any, would you pay to have a summary produced of a particular book?
Personally, I’d pay like 10c to consume particular summaries. Altruistically, I’d want Eliezer’s writing summarised, and would pay a few of orders of magnitude more for a summary of a sequence, depending significantly on the summarising author.
How about co-creating summaries together?
Here’s my summary of Chapter 1 of Principles of Marketing. It took me 4 hours of work. Here is a link to the book.
Anybody reading this can feel free to edit my writing or work on upcoming chapters. If everybody works on it a little at a time, it could get done several times faster than if I summarize the 600 page book on my own. Summarizing books seems perfectly suited for crowdsourcing.
I’d consider summarizing a sequence.