21k copies/61k hardcover books, each book ~630 pages long, yep!
I agree that most of the impact is from a fun attraction to adjacent ideas, not from what the book itself communicates.
No connection to the grant, yep.
It was a crowdfunding campaign, and I committed to spend at least as much on books and shipping costs (including to libraries and for educational/science popularization purposes) as we’ve received through the campaign. We’ve then run out of that money and had to spend our own (about 2.2m rubles so far) to send the books to winners of olympiads and libraries and also buy a bunch of copies of Human Compatible and The Precipice (we were able to get discounted prices). On average, it costs us around $5 to deliver a copy to a door.
We’ve distributed around 15k copies in total so far, most to the crowdfunding participants.
21k copies/61k hardcover books, each book ~630 pages long, yep!
I agree that most of the impact is from a fun attraction to adjacent ideas, not from what the book itself communicates.
No connection to the grant, yep.
It was a crowdfunding campaign, and I committed to spend at least as much on books and shipping costs (including to libraries and for educational/science popularization purposes) as we’ve received through the campaign. We’ve then run out of that money and had to spend our own (about 2.2m rubles so far) to send the books to winners of olympiads and libraries and also buy a bunch of copies of Human Compatible and The Precipice (we were able to get discounted prices). On average, it costs us around $5 to deliver a copy to a door.
We’ve distributed around 15k copies in total so far, most to the crowdfunding participants.