Hi Maxime and Konrad, thank you for your work and the post.
I have a question with regard to the structure of the book. It seems like from your summary and the longer description that chapter 2 &3,(4) are quite distinct from 1,4,5. While the former chapters are focused on policymaking/lobbying etc in general (taking shorttermist situations, longtermist problems as examples), the other 3 are more specifically about longtermist policies. Please correct me if I am wrong. Why did you decide to include them in the same publication? It seems to me that a policy maker (especially compared to a policy researcher) would be less fascinated by chapter 2 and 3 (at least at first glance ). Also, given that you mention influencing policy debates quite a lot, I was wondering why you don’t want to specifically target advocacy groups or civil society.
Yeah I was really surprised by this as well. As someone who already works in policy, I would be disappointed to pick up a book about long-termist policy making and find out that it’s just explaining how my job works!
Even chapter 5 doesn’t seem very clearly focused on long-termist policy rather than policy generally from this table of contents, but I’m probably not understanding the nuances.
Admittedly I read Charlotte’s comment before reading the full proposal but my main thoughts were:
(1) Everything in the book looks really interesting and exciting and I’d be keen to read (or give more feedback on) the specifics in each chapter.
(2) It didn’t seem like the content of the different chapters was very clearly linked together. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, since some books are structured like that (e.g. edited academic books, textbooks etc) but seems unusual for a short, self/co-authored books?
Hi Maxime and Konrad, thank you for your work and the post.
I have a question with regard to the structure of the book. It seems like from your summary and the longer description that chapter 2 &3,(4) are quite distinct from 1,4,5. While the former chapters are focused on policymaking/lobbying etc in general (taking shorttermist situations, longtermist problems as examples), the other 3 are more specifically about longtermist policies. Please correct me if I am wrong. Why did you decide to include them in the same publication? It seems to me that a policy maker (especially compared to a policy researcher) would be less fascinated by chapter 2 and 3 (at least at first glance ). Also, given that you mention influencing policy debates quite a lot, I was wondering why you don’t want to specifically target advocacy groups or civil society.
Yeah I was really surprised by this as well. As someone who already works in policy, I would be disappointed to pick up a book about long-termist policy making and find out that it’s just explaining how my job works!
Even chapter 5 doesn’t seem very clearly focused on long-termist policy rather than policy generally from this table of contents, but I’m probably not understanding the nuances.
Admittedly I read Charlotte’s comment before reading the full proposal but my main thoughts were: (1) Everything in the book looks really interesting and exciting and I’d be keen to read (or give more feedback on) the specifics in each chapter. (2) It didn’t seem like the content of the different chapters was very clearly linked together. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, since some books are structured like that (e.g. edited academic books, textbooks etc) but seems unusual for a short, self/co-authored books?