I don’t want to throw cold water on your enthusiasm. But I think you are underestimating the difficulty of getting anything potentially politically controversial published in China in the current climate and the potential downside risks of coming to the attention of the Chinese government in such an area.
Given the recent crackdowns on NGOs and civil society in China this would entail a very genuine risk of the related organisations being banned from operating in China, and make the government more likely to suppress EA idea in general. Which is a very high risk for the low odds of a single book meaningfully changing public opinion, and which is very unlikely to be published.
From the way Tyler was talking about the book and topics, it did not seem to me like a politically controversial book “it was a book designed to explain America to the Chinese, and make it more explicable, more understandable”.
Or at least the controversial parts could be taken out if required and a lot of the value could remain.
Though I covered a lot of basic differences across the economies, the policies, why are the economies different?
Why is there so little state ownership in America?
Why are so many parts of America so bad at infrastructure?
I don’t want to throw cold water on your enthusiasm. But I think you are underestimating the difficulty of getting anything potentially politically controversial published in China in the current climate and the potential downside risks of coming to the attention of the Chinese government in such an area.
Given the recent crackdowns on NGOs and civil society in China this would entail a very genuine risk of the related organisations being banned from operating in China, and make the government more likely to suppress EA idea in general. Which is a very high risk for the low odds of a single book meaningfully changing public opinion, and which is very unlikely to be published.
From the way Tyler was talking about the book and topics, it did not seem to me like a politically controversial book “it was a book designed to explain America to the Chinese, and make it more explicable, more understandable”.
Or at least the controversial parts could be taken out if required and a lot of the value could remain.