It seems from the podcast he wanted to only release the book in Chinese (maybe especially at this point due to the decline in willingness for the west to work with China) but I’m not sure, maybe the book would help westerns understand China’s culture as much as Chinese to understand the west. A lot of great power war-concerned EAs would probably buy the book to get a better insight.
If I had to guess, I don’t think he needs help finding a translator or transcribing the book to an audiobook or any other particular singular task, I think it’s bigger than that.
If we could get someone with contacts and backing like OpenPhil to say to Tyler “We will pay all costs to publish the book and assign a project manager to do all of the annoying bits for you” it seems harder for Tyler to turn down, but I’m just guessing.
they have scihub and random pdfs in china just like we do...yes getting officially censored is annoying but I’d guess 90% of what he publishes get through
(Don’t have a lot of time, quickly typing and very quickly skimming this post and comments, might have missed things.)
getting officially censored is annoying
The concerns in this comment are true. This can be overcome, but this requires a lot capability in many ways and is currently extremely hard.
“Getting censored” is much more than just annoying and could affect a lot of other people and projects.
There is a lot of context here and it’s not easy to explain this. The comments and post, in some ways, show the limits of projects/activity from online discourse and social media.
I don’t really have the time, skills, or contacts to make this happen, if you want to pick up the torch I would gladly pass it to you.
Tyler seems keen although worried about censors: https://twitter.com/tylercowen/status/1614402492518785025
It seems from the podcast he wanted to only release the book in Chinese (maybe especially at this point due to the decline in willingness for the west to work with China) but I’m not sure, maybe the book would help westerns understand China’s culture as much as Chinese to understand the west. A lot of great power war-concerned EAs would probably buy the book to get a better insight.
If I had to guess, I don’t think he needs help finding a translator or transcribing the book to an audiobook or any other particular singular task, I think it’s bigger than that.
If we could get someone with contacts and backing like OpenPhil to say to Tyler “We will pay all costs to publish the book and assign a project manager to do all of the annoying bits for you” it seems harder for Tyler to turn down, but I’m just guessing.
Happy to chat more, if you’d like
they have scihub and random pdfs in china just like we do...yes getting officially censored is annoying but I’d guess 90% of what he publishes get through
(Don’t have a lot of time, quickly typing and very quickly skimming this post and comments, might have missed things.)
The concerns in this comment are true. This can be overcome, but this requires a lot capability in many ways and is currently extremely hard.
“Getting censored” is much more than just annoying and could affect a lot of other people and projects.
There is a lot of context here and it’s not easy to explain this. The comments and post, in some ways, show the limits of projects/activity from online discourse and social media.