A philosopher shares his perspective on what we should do now to ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed.
The summary seems pretty reductive—I think most of the book is about other things, like making sure civilization doesn’t collapse at all or preventing negative moral lock-in. I wonder how they chose it.
Yes, it’s quite bad. NYT bestseller one-sentence summaries are weirdly bad. The summary of “Godel, Escher, Bach” was “A scientist argues that reality is a system of interconnected braids”; whoever wrote that sentence clearly hadn’t read the book.
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The summary seems pretty reductive—I think most of the book is about other things, like making sure civilization doesn’t collapse at all or preventing negative moral lock-in. I wonder how they chose it.
Yes, it’s quite bad. NYT bestseller one-sentence summaries are weirdly bad. The summary of “Godel, Escher, Bach” was “A scientist argues that reality is a system of interconnected braids”; whoever wrote that sentence clearly hadn’t read the book.